I've been waiting for some good intel on the sticky revolving door between energy companies and foreign governments to turn up from the Wikileaks tour-de-force. Well,
here it is--not exactly something you wouldn't suspect, but it's still incredible to see it confirmed:
"Royal Dutch Shell had staff placed in key ministries of the Nigerian government, the Anglo-Dutch oil group claimed in a leaked US diplomatic cable. The group’s top executive in the African state told US diplomats that it therefore knew 'everything that was being done in those ministries.'"
In related news, Shell's massive corporate comms team unsurprisingly declines to comment either way.
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