3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (265+ words) ### 9. Comparability It functions in overlapping ways with investigative journalism (aggregation and spotlighting of documents), shareholder activism (persistent public scrutiny), corporate-watchdog organisations, and institutional historical archives. It is not identical to any of them, but the functional parallel is real: external…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1613+ words) The previous instalment ended with a platform location. The 2012 site survey had shown that the alternative “blue location” could work. It lay farther offshore than the earlier preferred PA-C site, farther from the principal Western Gray Whale feeding area and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1605+ words) The timing could hardly have been more revealing. At its December 2010 meeting, the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel was still trying to understand what had happened during an extraordinary year on the northeastern Sakhalin shelf. Three seismic surveys had operated…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1587+ words) After weeks examining individual Shell Nigeria documents, there is a danger of overlooking perhaps the most important fact about the archive itself. The public does not have the whole archive. But according to the report prepared by Amnesty International, HEDA…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1596+ words) For years, one word has dominated Shell’s explanation of oil pollution in the Niger Delta: There is no responsible reason to pretend that oil theft and sabotage were invented by Shell. But the legal question is more complicated than the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1581+ words) The previous Shell Leaks File examined a deceptively simple document. On 4 March 2004, Britain’s Export Credits Guarantee Department sent Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd a letter headed: The letter did not constitute the final approximately $650 million ECGD guarantee being contemplated for…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1581+ words) There are internal Shell documents about pipelines. There are documents about corrosion. Then there is a different kind of evidence. Section 4.7 of the July 2026 report Nigeria: Lifting the Lid reproduces material relied upon by the Bille and Ogale claimants concerning…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1604+ words) Sometimes an old article improves with age. Reading it again almost twenty years later is rather like opening a corporate time capsule. There is a worried whistleblower. There are secret emergency offices. There are allegations about employees being required to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1591+ words) Some of the most revealing words in the newly disclosed Shell papers are not about corrosion, clamps, leak detection or the condition of a pipeline. They are about the “court of public opinion.” That phrase appears in the March 2013 Project…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1575+ words) For decades, one word has carried extraordinary weight in arguments over oil pollution in the Niger Delta. If a pipeline was deliberately damaged by thieves, Shell could point to criminal conduct by third parties. If it failed because of corrosion…...