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Kazakhstan Has Problems With Shell Oil Over Environmental Issues (This and every page is subject to The Disclaimer)
Kazakhstan has halted the development of its oil reserves with Shell Oil due to environmental problems 

In an egregious pattern of bad environmental behavior, Shell is facing a world wide rejection of its malicious avoidance of its environmental responsibilities (article here). Kazakhstan is the latest to reject Shell Oil based on its callous disregard for the world's environment. This page was created so the President of Kazakhstan and other members of his government can see what Shell is up to not only in the United States, but in other parts of the world. Kazakhstan is not alone in its rejection of Shell's empty promises to protect the environment. If Shell can't clean up its environmental problems in the United States, why should world leaders think that Shell would do any better in their countries? When a California Senator can not get Shell to fulfill its environmental promises, why should Kazakhstan? (see Voluntary Compliance). If Argentina had to shut down a Shell refinery (see Argentina) and Russia used Shell's hiding its environmental breaches to break its contract (see Billion Lost), why should Kazakhstan put up with the same environmental deceptions and remediation avoidance from Shell Oil? (article here) You can contact the President of Kazakhstan here and the government of Kazakhstan here and useful links here if you have any important information about environmental breaches by Shell Oil. SeeitReal.com's email to the government of Kazakhstan is here. The 2nd largest company in the world (by revenue and profits) can't clean up the former Texaco stations or a refinery it sold in the United States? Wouldn't that be the definition of "bad faith?" SeeitReal.com believes that not cleaning up the environment in the United States (see Voluntary Compliance), a similar refinery in Argentina and like problems in other countries constitutes a "pattern of bad faith" and that Royal Dutch Shell should be excluded from the Kashagan Project accordingly. 
 
Broken Promises & Empty Actions
 
Major oil companies are having to drastically re-negotiate their contracts such as Kazakhstan or lose control of their projects altogether as recently happened to Shell in Russia or have their refinery shut down like Argentina, but the ability to break those agreements and take such drastic actions have been centered around the environment. Knowing that, how negligent is Shell in not addressing matters clearly brought to Shell's attention that Shell knows it has responsibility for? Some careers at Shell will need to pay the price of that arrogant oversight. We don't know how to make it any clearer than this website for Shell to address its environmental issues with the direct honesty that these problems demand. SeeitReal.com believes countries doing business with Shell Oil need to take into account Shell's "pattern" of environmental "bad faith." Shell's "pattern" of bad environmental behavior can be used in litigation, negotiations, re-negotiations or discussions with Shell Oil, and should be. If Shell refuses to clean up America, how can anyone believe Shell will clean up anywhere else? (see Voluntary Compliance).
Shell Oil vs. The Public Trust
Shell seems to be losing ground globally with its lack of attention to the environment and not realizing that even "small" environmental issues are still at the forefront of energy development. Global warming has us all concerned for the future, but scars on the earth created by lax attention to mitigating and remediating sources of pollution are the worst kinds of damage any global citizen can do. Walking away from its responsibility to clean up the Texaco problem, during record company profits, is an unforgivable sin. Every country that Shell does business in needs to call Shell on that responsibility. Not cleaning up a refinery it sold is a testament to Shell's lack of environmental responsibility and global citizenship (see Voluntary Compliance). This site also believes that selling all its service stations in America in a clandestine non-disclosure agreement protected mass sell off in (in order to dump its environmental liabilities given an old and failing UST system, see Recent Settlements) represents Shell's malicious avoidance of its environmental liabilities (see Problem Defined). Selling dirty Texaco stations to the person who created the problem, by not doing a definitive test and not cleaning up the stations before transfer, would appear to indicate "malicious criminal avoidance" (see Shell Oil Company), especially if Shell engineered a test designed to fail less than 33 yards from a clean water aquifer (see The Right Test).