> Caroline Dennett, who has been a U.K.-based safety consultant for Shell for 11 years, said she could no longer work for the company given its plans to expand fossil fuel extraction.
> In an email sent to the executive committee and more than 1,000 employees, she wrote that as “continued oil & gas extraction is causing extreme harm” to the planet, Shell was “failing on a massive planetary scale” to deliver on its pledge to cause “no harm” with its operations.
> Shell . . . recently started campaigning for the U.K. government to let the company develop a new North Sea gas field.
> [The consultant] called on the company’s management “to look in the mirror and ask themselves if they really believe their vision for more oil & gas extraction secures a safe future for humanity” and asked employees who can do so to “please walk away and towards a more sustainable career.”
Imagine if companies were actually held to things they said in their PR greenwash. Well done her.
I’m not saying it isn’t better than nothing
>In an email sent to the executive committee and more than 1,000 employees
but 0.1% of staff taking 11 years to realise something ain’t right is hardly good either.
I suspect that after 11 years of consultancy she’s made a fair chunk of change and – having sensed the growing public unease over the climate situation – is using this to springboard into what will doubtless be new opportunities for her.
Glad she said it, though.
As if we didnt already know that.
Everyone knows this so we can all quit our jobs too.
Worth pointing out that it seems like she’s a director of Clout Limited, who seemingly provided consultancy services to numerous companies – one being Shell.
Last two returns have indicated she has an average of 1 employee in her micro company (herself I presume) and <100k in assets. She also apparently employs someone else who is young and attending a very prestigious University so I wouldn’t put it past that being why she’s suddenly seemingly grown a moral backbone lol.
But that being said, this is pretty much a small-time contractor who doesn’t even work for Shell. So, whilst the article may have a genuine overall point about the harms to the planet, it seems deliberately misleading by seemingly suggesting that high-ranking Shell employees are kicking up a fuss when this is not the case.
Was this something she did not realise eleven year ago? The Deepwater Horizon spill was in 2010 and it is not like BP and Shell are all that different in their aims. The issues surrounding fossil fuels and their direct link to climate change has been around longer than I have been alive, so at least 30 years. She knew Shell were causing extreme harm to the environment when she joined them, it just took her eleven years to finally decide she had been paid enough to quit with ‘dignity’.
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> Caroline Dennett, who has been a U.K.-based safety consultant for Shell for 11 years, said she could no longer work for the company given its plans to expand fossil fuel extraction.
> In an email sent to the executive committee and more than 1,000 employees, she wrote that as “continued oil & gas extraction is causing extreme harm” to the planet, Shell was “failing on a massive planetary scale” to deliver on its pledge to cause “no harm” with its operations.
> Shell . . . recently started campaigning for the U.K. government to let the company develop a new North Sea gas field.
> [The consultant] called on the company’s management “to look in the mirror and ask themselves if they really believe their vision for more oil & gas extraction secures a safe future for humanity” and asked employees who can do so to “please walk away and towards a more sustainable career.”
Imagine if companies were actually held to things they said in their PR greenwash. Well done her.
I’m not saying it isn’t better than nothing
>In an email sent to the executive committee and more than 1,000 employees
but 0.1% of staff taking 11 years to realise something ain’t right is hardly good either.
I suspect that after 11 years of consultancy she’s made a fair chunk of change and – having sensed the growing public unease over the climate situation – is using this to springboard into what will doubtless be new opportunities for her.
Glad she said it, though.
As if we didnt already know that.
Everyone knows this so we can all quit our jobs too.
Worth pointing out that it seems like she’s a director of Clout Limited, who seemingly provided consultancy services to numerous companies – one being Shell.
Last two returns have indicated she has an average of 1 employee in her micro company (herself I presume) and <100k in assets. She also apparently employs someone else who is young and attending a very prestigious University so I wouldn’t put it past that being why she’s suddenly seemingly grown a moral backbone lol.
But that being said, this is pretty much a small-time contractor who doesn’t even work for Shell. So, whilst the article may have a genuine overall point about the harms to the planet, it seems deliberately misleading by seemingly suggesting that high-ranking Shell employees are kicking up a fuss when this is not the case.
Was this something she did not realise eleven year ago? The Deepwater Horizon spill was in 2010 and it is not like BP and Shell are all that different in their aims. The issues surrounding fossil fuels and their direct link to climate change has been around longer than I have been alive, so at least 30 years. She knew Shell were causing extreme harm to the environment when she joined them, it just took her eleven years to finally decide she had been paid enough to quit with ‘dignity’.