Chevron Should Face Retrial Over Beatings, Court Told (Update3) - BusinessWeek - 0 views
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Staying true to your roots - Lead Features - NG Power & Energy Africa | GDS Publishing - 0 views
NGOs and BBC targeted by Shell PR machine in wake of Saro-Wiwa death | Business | The G... - 0 views
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The company's "crisis plan" focused on what the documents refer to as "the message" and getting the "style, tone, content and timing right, reflecting greater humanity". Philip Watts, who would later become Shell chairman, emphasised that everyone must "sing to the same 'hymn sheet'."
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Dividing NGOs into friends and foes, Shell emphasised the need to "work with [and] sway 'middle of the road' activists". The Body Shop, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth were seen as unlikely to change their position. One suggested tactic to counter these organisations was to "challenge [the] basis on which they continue their campaign against Shell in order to make it more difficult for them to sustain it". Human rights organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch were seen as more easily persuaded. The document suggests building relationships with the organisations and encouraging "buy-in to the complexity of the issue".
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In particular they wanted to "build a relationship" with journalist Hilary Andersson, who had recently become the BBC's Lagos correspondent, as well as "any of her known contacts in the divisions".
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ENVIRONMENT: EU Bank 'Financing Destruction' in Africa - 0 views
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Osayande Omokaro from Friends of the Earth Nigeria said that European energy firms are eager to increase their investment in Africa in order to compete with China and to reduce their dependence on oil and gas from the Middle East and Russia. "Europeans pride themselves as promoters of human rights, freedom and good governance," he added. "The Chinese do not really promote these values. The Europeans must live by what they practise at home, even if it means losing some ground to the Chinese. It is better to make sure you practise what you preach."
LRB | Retort : Blood for Oil? - 0 views
The Niger Delta: The curse of the black gold - Africa, World - The Independent - 0 views
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The stability or otherwise of the Delta matters a great deal, even to those who have never heard of it. Within a decade, the United States expects to extract around a quarter of its oil from the Gulf of Guinea. They see it as a safer option than the Middle East, and it has played a large part in the thinking behind the establishment of the US's Africa Command – a plan for a series of permanent military bases on the continent.
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