Shell’s Billion-Dollar Bailout: Greenwashing, Grift, and the Usual Grease

Shell’s Billion-Dollar Bailout: Greenwashing, Grift, and the Usual Grease

In the latest episode of Who Wants to Be a Corporate Vampire?, Shell — the ever-thirsty fossil fuel behemoth — is trying to tiptoe out of South Africa’s downstream market, shedding 600 fuel stations and a century of oily fingerprints in a $1 billion fire sale. But instead of bowing out quietly, Shell has found itself embroiled in what can only be described as a sordid little soap opera of corporate backstabbing, political puppetry, and good old-…