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Goes Greenpeace vs Shell, after the oil giant announced record profits of almost $40 billion in 2022, more than double what it recorded in 2021. Since the company has benefited from high oil and gas prices after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to The Guardian , Greenpeace protesters decided to board a Shell floating oil platform being transported more than 12,000 nautical miles to the Shetland Islands with signs demanding that the fossil fuel giant stop drilling and take Social Responsibility . Business (CSR) of the costs for the damage it has caused to the planet. “Shell stops drilling and starts paying,” requests Greenpeace Activists from the United Kingdom, Turkey, the United States and Argentina boarded the 52,000-tonne heavy-lift ship just north of the Canary Islands on Tuesday morning and displayed a banner from the platform in what they said was a peaceful protest against the climate devastation occurring around the world “caused by Shell and the fossil fuel industry in general, without paying a cent for losses and damages.” Protesters reached the heavy-lift vessel in three boats launched from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and used ropes to climb onto the deck. Then, they occupied the platform, which is transported in the back of the boat.
Fossil fuel companies like Shell, who are responsible for this climate chaos we are seeing around the world, must be held accountable." Granger, one of the platform's activists. The Greenpeace vs. Shell battle echoes the denunciations of the Secretary General of the United Nations about the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of oil companies in the face of environmental disasters, and their unacceptable profits while Western Sahara Email List the world faces a crisis crisis greatly exacerbated by geopolitical issues and climate change. fossil-fuel-profits “It is immoral for oil and gas companies to make record profits from this energy crisis at the expense of the poorest people and communities, at enormous cost to the climate.” Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General. Greenpeace vs Shell According to Granger, one of the activists, the extreme weather caused by the climate crisis on the west coast where she lives has included droughts and forest fires, reasons that led her to climate activism. She added: "The countries that did the least to cause this climate chaos we find ourselves in are the hardest hit, and Shell is making billions and billions of dollars in profits.
Executive director of Greenpeace and the Philippines' former chief climate negotiator, did not address the platform, but said: "We are taking action today because when Shell extracts fossil fuels, it causes a wave of death, destruction and displacement around the world. , which has the worst impact on the people who are least to blame for the climate crisis. “ must take responsibility for decades of profiting from climate injustice and pay for the loss and damage they have caused.” Yeb Saño, executive director of Greenpeace. This is important because the platform will allow Shell to further exploit the Penguins oil and gas field, an island located near Antarctica, which is 240 km from the Shetland Islands. And, Greenpeace says it will be used to unlock eight new wells in the field. Additionally, the platform could also participate in the production of new oil and gas from a nearby untapped deposit, which is being drilled by Shell. The company, which is based in London, has described the redevelopment of the Penguins field as an "attractive opportunity", which it estimates will produce 45,000 barrels of oil or its gas equivalent each day at its peak.