Fossil Energy – Shell
According to UPI a Shell safety consultant has resigned over what she calls the oil company’s ‘extreme harms’ to the environment and ‘disregard for climate change risks’.
Caroline Dennett submitted her resignation to Shell executives and 1,400 employees earlier this week, accusing the U.S. company of ‘failing on a massive planetary scale’ and blasting the oil giant’s plans to expand fossil fuel extraction.
“Today I’m quitting because of Shell’s double talk on climate,” Dennett said. “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.”
Dennett worked as a senior safety consultant with Shell for 11 years. She specializes in evaluating safety procedures in high-risk industries, and started working with Shell after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
“I can no longer work for a company that ignores all the alarms and dismisses the risks of climate change and ecological collapse,” Dennett said.
The former Shell consultant called the fossil fuel industry “the past” and urged other workers to leave the industry.