Big oil consultant resigns with scathing email to 1,400 executives asking them all to ‘look in the mirror’

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She told Shell executives they needed to admit that the firm is “failing on a planetary scale”.

in a blaze of glory when she told executives they needed to admit that the oil giant is “failing on a planetary scale.”

In her resignation email—which was sent to 1,400 employees and contractors at Shell—she said despite warnings from the U.N. and the International Energy Agency that there was no safe level of new oil and gas extraction, Shell was planning to explore and extract “much more.” “Shell’s disregard for climate change risks means they are completely failing on their Goal Zero safety ambition to ‘do no harm,’” Dennett said.

 

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