The firm was accused in a 2001 Sunday Times article of helping BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc spy on Greenpeace using a German agent called Manfred Schlickenrieder, who posed as a left-wing film-maker. Free University’s Blancke, who studied the incident, has computer files taken from Schlickenrieder’s room by environmental activists who became suspicious [...]
Posts under ‘Alfred Donovan’
How two men and a website in Colchester humbled one of the oil industry giants
Derek Brower (Editor, Petroleum Economist): 25 February 2007 It is not the kind of place you would expect to find at the centre of a global energy war. John Donovan’s office is in a modest house in a suburb of Colchester. No electronic maps of Europe adorn his walls, as they do the walls of [...]
The Sunday Telegraph: Online revolutionaries
The Sunday Telegraph: 10 September 2007 ARTICLE ABOUT GRIPE WEBSITES EXTRACTS Today’s activists are giving business a bloody nose from behind their keyboards – not the barricades. Revolutions used to happen in the streets – these days they take place online. And the targets are more often big businesses than bad governments. Banks, in particular, [...]
Shell endorsement of Donovan website
The following extract printed in red text is from a Shell internal email supplied to us by Shell in response to a Subject Access Request we made under the UK Data Protection Act (equivalent of U.S. Freedom of Information law). Some third party information has been redacted by Shell. FROM A HAPLESS SHELL OFFICIAL: John [...]
The man who shook Shell
By Clémence Grison (paris): 29.03.2012 John Donovan, who worked with Shell, reveals damaging information on the oil giant. This personal revenge has already cost the Anglo-Dutch company billions of dollars. John Donovan, 64, is a meticulous man and very knowledgeable. For several years he has spent most of his time on what he describes as [...]
Shell Job Application Farce
Shell has been prepared to put up with the ignominy of its “No1 Enemy” receiving private communications meant for the company. Several years ago Mr Michiel Brandjes (right), Company Secretary & General Counsel Corporate, gave us written permission to vet incoming mail on behalf of Shell, using our discretion to remove and destroy what we [...]
An open wound for Shell
Some Shell employees complained on their website Royaldutchshellplc.com that a ‘Swiss Mafia’ is running the group. “Meanwhile, staff flocked to Royaldutchshell.com to attack the group’s management.” “Influentialyou bet. The Donovans and their blog are regularly quoted in the mainstream mediano doubt that the father-and-son team is an ongoing headache for Shell.” By John Donovan We [...]
Shell BP Corporate Espionage
A Sunday Times article published in June 2001 detailed Shell/BP undercover activities including infiltration, spying and subversion operations around the world directed at perceived enemies. Contrary to The Sunday Times headline, it was not limited to “green groups” – as can be confirmed by reading the article. CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE By John Donovan [...]
Gripesites: How to Gut Goliath by Becoming an Interactive Hub of Dissent
By John Donovan GRIPE WEB SITES At long last, someone has written an invaluable guide on how ordinary individuals can publicly criticize the rich and powerful, including multinational corporations, by using the Internet. My father and I pioneered the use of websites for exposing Royal Dutch Shell. Indeed, the author, Robert Eringer, uses our experience [...]
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST: The Corrib Gas controversy
EXTRACTS FROM “ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST” BY LORNA SIGGINS FROM THE FOREWORD (BY FINTAN O’TOOLE) Though theoretically citizens in a liberal democracy, those who have stood in the way of the exploitation of the Corrib gas field by a consortium led by Shell found themselves with very little protection from their own [...]
Shell Corrib Gas project controversies continue
James Gill is the Garda Sergeant who allegedly made a bizarre threat relating to a Shell Corrib protestor: Give me your name and address or I’ll rape you. The Irish Times – Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Protester to appeal defamation ruling ÁINE RYAN A CORRIB gas protester who was recently successfully pursued for defamation by [...]
Story linking Shell with Jewish skin lamp shades is gutter press
POSTING ON SHELL BLOG BY “LONDONLAD” SAT 28 JAN 2012 I am afraid that there clearly is very little news (i.e. aspects of Shell’s work) for the Donovan’s to rant on about recently. A great deal is re-printed as though it’s new but is merely old stories and anti-Shell propoganda that is old history. Yes, [...]
Malaysian Judge told Shell that they should sue John Donovan in the UK
Dr Huong was buried in multiple injunctions arising from alleged defamatory postings on our website. Shell also attempted to have him committed to prison and was apparently keen that I should become a fellow prisoner, after they gave up trying to lure my father to Malaysia. By John Donovan In 2004, EIGHT companies within the [...]
Damage still reverberating from Royal Dutch Shell reserves scandal
By John Donovan The Guardian reports today that several hundred senior scientists employed by Shell at the Thornton Research Centre in Cheshire “will be scattered to other offices” in what is described as a more general retreat by Shell from the UK. Shell staff, who are said to be “seething,” apparently believe the retreat from [...]
Shell Make Money promotion wrangle (Information from our archive)
My son John Donovan (centre), Chairman of Don Marketing, with two fellow DM directors John Chambers (left) and Roger Sotherton (right), at the launch of the UK Make Money promotion in 1983 Printed below is the background information relating to an article published by Forecourt Trader in January 1995. By Alfred Donovan Our High Court [...]
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