Leopards don't change their spots, and multi-national corporations don't change their ways of doing business.

Evening Post (New Zealand): 3 September 1938, page 26

"A life of Sir Henri Deterding has been written by Glyn Roberts, and to this biography, which is published by Convici Frieda, of New York, he has given the title of “The Most Powerful Man in the World.”

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Foreseeing the role that oil was to play in the world, he is 'the oilman whose major policy is to conserve reserves abroad while draining those of the United States-for which he is well loved by the British Admiralty.'

We are also told that he finances Hitler, backs Franco, and admires Mussolini. He is the man who, although still a Dutch citizen, is a major factor in the foreign policy of the country upon which the peace of’ the world depends -Great Britain."

http://royaldutchshellplc.com/1938/09/

Deepwater should have shut this crap down for a decade.

It seems like a testament to how fucked up our politics are that it was merely a "speed bump" to offshore drilling and has been accompanied by new environmental disasters, like fracking-caused earthquakes and pipeline spills.

It's got to be great to suddenly live in an earthquake zone because politics dictated that this would all be a great thing.