Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Scourge of the Jungle
In the news last week for teaming up with Chevron and the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation in support of REDD initiatives to turn indigenous peoples’ forests into corporate plantations, Shell is again in the news for developing lands stolen from Guarani Indians in order to produce biofuel in Brazil. I guess after facing worldwide condemnation for its complicity in genocide in the Niger Delta, Shell has made it clear how concerned they are with the human rights of tribal societies.
