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WATCHING THE WORLD: Shell blasted over Iraq oil

05/26/2008
Political activists say Royal Dutch Shell threatens to trigger greater conflict in Iraq with plans to control the development, production, and depletion of the country’s oil.The warning from a coalition called Hands Off Iraqi Oil came as Shell held its annual meeting amid alleged “resistance” to the company’s “bid to assume control over oil reserves.”Protestors from the coalition, including War on Want, Platform, Voices UK, and Iraq Occupation Focus, planned to demonstrate outside the annual meeting in London and question the board of directors inside.In the view of the protestors, Shell wants “a controlling stake in the Kirkuk oil field, Iraq&rsq...
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