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Mr Jorma Ollila is the Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell Plc. He took up his non-executive position on 1st June 2006. This Wall Street journal sketch is reproduced in accordance with the "Fair Use Notice" below *This is not the website of Royal Dutch Shell Group nor is it endorsed by them, or affiliated with them in any way. Shell's legal statement regarding this site is posted below. If you wish to visit the Shell portal website without being exposed to over 12,000 web pages of news and information about Shell, including revelations, leaked Shell internal documents, you are only one click away: Click here for the Royal Dutch Shell Plc portal site shell.com Shell's website presents the activities of the World's No 2 oil and gas giant employing all the hype and spin that this $223 BILLION dollar multinational can buy. ShellNews.net provides the antidote in a "fair and balanced" way using the Fox News model. This is a non-commercial site: no subscription charges and no paid advertising.
LEGAL STATEMENT BY THE ROYAL DUTCH SHELL GROUP REGARDING THIS WEBSITE: I, Alfred Donovan, would like to remind Shell lawyers that the "group" has placed on record its acknowledgement of my freedom to air my opinions about Shell on ShellNews.net. I did of course already have rights under various freedom of expression conventions and declarations but its nice to know that Shell, one of the multinational rulers of our planet, recognises this fact. The Royal Dutch Shell Group made the following unusual statement in a legal document in regards to this website: - "The... Group... have been aware of the site since the beginning and whilst they would not endorse or agree with many of the comments made by the Respondent on the website, they have taken the view that the Respondent is entitled to express his opinions and to use the Internet as a medium for doing so." This statement drafted by Shell lawyers and authorised by the "Group", amounts to tacit acceptance/recognition of this website by Shell. It was submitted to The World Intellectual Property Organisation in May 2005 by Shell International Petroleum Company Limited on behalf of the Royal Dutch Shell Group in WIPO proceedings against me, Alfred Donovan, as the "Respondent" (owner) of the three domain names at the top of this web page, including www.royaldutchshellplc.com. (In August 2005, a three person independent panel of Internet domain name lawyers/experts unanimously rejected Shell's claim.)
It remains a mystery why Shell has taken an entirely different view regarding
the fundamental human right to freedom of expression in respect of the former Shell
geologist Dr John Huong (left), the well-known Shell reserves whistleblower, in relation to
alleged defamatory postings under his name on our websites. EIGHT companies within the Royal Dutch Shell Group
collectively obtained a High Court Injunction to silence him. That Injunction
remains in force. They have subsequently threatened him with imprisonment. The next High Court hearing is due on 8 February 2007. It will hear an application by the EIGHT Shell companies in question for Alfred Donovan, 90 years old in April 2007, to be cross-examined in the Malaysian High Court in relation to the case.