A Shell analyst has quit in the most public way possible.Caroline Dennett has been a senior safety consultant for Shell for 11 years, but in an emotional farewell video, she has walked away from her position, citing its “disregard for climate change risks” and the “extreme harms” the company is doing to the environment. She went on to urge others in the oil and gas industry to “walk away while there’s still time.
In an open letter to Shell executives and 1,400 of its employees, she said she was quitting because of Shell’s “double-talk on climate.” She accused the company of “operating beyond the design limits of our planetary systems” and “not putting environmental safety before production. Shell’s stated safety ambition is to ‘do no harm’ — ‘Goal Zero’, they call it — and it sounds honorable, but they are completely failing on it.
A Shell spokesperson told the press on Monday, “Be in no doubt, we are determined to deliver on our global strategy to be a net zero company by 2050 and thousands of our people are working hard to achieve this. We have set targets for the short, medium and long term, and have every intention of hitting them. We’re already investing billions of dollars in low-carbon energy, although the world will still need oil and gas for decades to come in sectors that can’t be easily decarbonized.
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