These documents were uncovered during five years of research by Vatan Hüzeir of Changerism, while a PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, as part of his investigation entitled, Dirty pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.
The first stories on this material were published on April 1, 2023 by DeSmog and by Follow The Money in the Netherlands. DeSmog published additional documents on January 18, 2024.
Documents from the Dirty Pearls Investigation
- 1985 Shell UK Long Term Business Planning Unit report,”Why and How to Control Energy Pollution”
- 1987 Shell Briefing Service, “Air pollution: An oil industry perspective”
- 1989 Shell Confidential Group Planning Scenarios 1989-2010, “Challenge and response”
- 1989 Shell Confidential “UK Scenarios“
- 1992 Internal Shell Group Planning report, “The Potential Augmented Greenhouse Effect & Depletion of the Ozone Layer”
- 1998 Shell Sustainability report, “Profits and Principles – does there have to be a choice?”
Videos unearthed in the Dirty Pearls investigation
Shell 1981 documentary film: “Time For Energy”, touting coal as the only replacement for oil.