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Royal Dutch Shell Group (Global)
Company details Royal Dutch Shell Group
Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors
Philip Watts
President of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company
Vice Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors
J. van der Veer
Carel Van Bylandtlaan 30
The Hague, 2596
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-70-377-9111
Shell Centre
York Road
London SE1 7NA
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-20-7934-1234
Company activity Shell Chemicals started production of the “drins” (endrin, dieldrin and
aldrin) in 1952 - ending completely in 1990. During this time Shell
was almost the only producer in the world.
Type of incident - Dumping of waste and emissions of drins during production
- Exposure of people to drins through agricultural use and
contaminated food
- Exposure to drins as result of stockpiles of obsolete pesticides
including drins
Type of damage As a result of drin production in Pernis, the Netherlands, river
sediments, residential areas and several dumpsites were severely
polluted 140 .
The production of drins by Shell in the US at the Rocky Mountain
Arsenal has also lead to a huge pollution scandal. Leaking basins
and pipes have contaminated 70 square kilometres of land 141 .
The pollution caused by the Shell drins producing plant in La
Paulínia, Brazil, is described in another case in this report 142 .
Exposure of people to drins has led to many intoxications and
deaths. Many incidents have been reported, for example the
consumption of bread made from endrin-contaminated flour that
affected at least 936 people and caused 26 deaths 143 .
140 Verboden drins maken nog steeds slachtoffers, Rene Didde, Volkskrant, 27 oktober 1990
141 http://www.pmrma-www.army.mil/htdocs/cleanup/clnfrm.html
142 Contamination in Paulinia by aldrin, dieldrin, endrin and other toxic chemicals produced and disposed of by shell
chemicals of Brazil, Karen Suassuna, Greenpeace Brazil, 2001
143 Chlorine and the environment, Ruth Stringer and Paul Johnston, Greenpeace Research Laboratories, University of
Exeter, UK, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2001
144 Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) (1999): “Obsolete Pesticides - Problems, Prevention and Disposal”
and “POPs in Africa”, Andreas Bernstorff and Kevin Stairs, Greenpeace Germany, 2001
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