I work in the oil & gas (offshore) and I can say this person is 100% accurate. The oil & gas industry needs to be investigated and changes need to be made
@@giovanna-sf You need to educate yourself about what “working in the industry” means, and the different jobs associated with that industry. I am a paramedic, does that mean I am part of the U.S. Healthcare problem? What these oil companies are doing to the Earth is atrocious, but the fact that you suggested someone that works in the industry is “part of the problem”, makes it obvious that you don’t fully understand the problem.
My mom worked for 30+ years in the petrochemical industry. She recently told me about how the *FBI* would show up for some leaks and work site incidents and tell the employees they were not allowed to tell anyone what happened. She said it so casually that it gave the impression of it being a fairly normal occurrence. She also said those incidents would never make it on the news despite having an inevitable effect on the community. The town i grew up in Houston is so heavily polluted. A lot of people i grew uo with are sick cuz of it. I'm infertile and disabled with a non-hereditray genetic condition. My whole family is healthy but me but I'm the only born and raised on the gulf coast Houston and the only one born inside a chemical plant. These plants would push propaganda through elementary school outreach programs and buying ads in our high school year books. Our sports fields and uniforms would be bought for by exxon, shell, chevron, dow, dupont, etc. We have been groomed to accept the petrochemical plants as a blessing despite them killing us on the process. Ive got roughly 10 years left if I'm lucky.
Im so sorry, this is beyond cruelty. I don’t even know what to say, there is nothing I can say to comfort you, I dont even have that place, that audacity. I just am really really sad for all of this
@@ponchito97 la porte, deer park, Pasadena, and Baytown. Essentially the entire area surrounding the ship channel from Galveston Bay up to the 610 Bridge all along hwy 225 and then moving along the coast to Texas City. Never noticed til now that those of us who grew up in the petrochemical industry tended to gravitate to the petrochemical towns. I mean, all our parents worked at the plants or ship channel and there is a marked culture and economic shift when you go to the towns just outside the area like League City and clear lake despite being just next door. 🤔 Also gott consider the ship channel. My dad worked on the barges and tug boats. The water out there is unbelievably bad. A friend and I felt wild and jumped in the water once. We came out covered in a thin shiny film. People go fishing and crabbing in that water!!! And eat em!!! Baffles my mind
My dad worked offshore for 25+ years. One month non stop work, two weeks home. He’s now diagnosed schizophrenia, bipolar, and has PTSD & severe depression. he’s been retired 8 years but still acts like he lives on the rig. People are convinced into oil & gas bc the pay is so well. But at what cost.
My stepdad worked offshore for 40 years. The only story he told me was working the crane for 40+ hours straight and falling asleep while doing it and dropping stuff from the crane. He followed that story with the words, "I can tell you horror stories."
Do not believe oil companies when they talk of investing in green energy. What they are doing is buying out any companies and technologies which could hurt their bottom line. They ”run it” for a while (keep it in a limbo) until share price drops, which it inevitably does because oil and gas is a very volitile sector, and make ”emergency neccesary budget cuts” scrapping all the green energy projects they bought up. BP did this just a few months ago
I used to work as scuba instructor staying on remote island for months at a time and from time to time there will be waves of solidified oil which looked like black goos washing ashore and sometimes it goes as far as the eyes can see which are like small black dots on the surface, the local told me that it got worse in the past decades, which was horrifying especially knowing that you’re on a REMOTE island
Well ChatGPT was trained on data available on the internet, which includes all the generic PR statements like this companies have made for decades. But yeah this was probably created by a team of PR people at Shell, vetted by their lawyers and approved by a VP. I'm sure Shell does have all kinds of trainings, safety policies and officials in place doing what they say in their statement, but a lot of lower level site managers ignore it and even site level workers have a "be a man, work hard, don't complain, and safety rules just make things harder" mentality. Also, like mentioned in the video, contracting companies are used so Shell can say they did their part for their employees but they have no control over contractors as a loophole.
@@Will_Grow_PlantsI believe the guys on offshore rigs (in Europe and North America at least) get paid really well. Usually it's like 3 months on and 3 months off or something like that but they'll pull in 6 figures.
@@mikebergman1817 people who scream about gun control just want back ground checks so crazies/ terrorist don’t get them, not for the government to take all guns but people like you can’t seem to understand that
I seen a dude get blasted by a hydraulic line that ruptured the fitting with remaining hose was hanging out his face his family was told he fell off the rig
Its funny, the other day I was having a debate with someone over younger generations not being able to find jobs that pay well. The guy I was talking to said, "stop complaining and just get a job on an oil rig for 6 months. Theyll pay you like $200,000 and youre set for the rest of the year. Easy." I told him it wasnt a viable option for alot of people and he laughed at me and said nobody wants to do hard jobs anymore. This video made me feel validated. IDK who could watch this video and think, "here is an easy, entry level job that pays super well"
😂 cuz a 5 foot single mom of 4 can just get a job on an oil rig as a crane operator like it's no big deal 🤦🏻♀️ guess he isn't aware that there are a finite number of crane operator positions available and if the market is flooded with applicants, the pay scale will rapidly go down?
Even if you’re a single, able-bodied, male, the trade-off that *used to* be done: “trade my safety & location for money that’s better than fast-food jobs” isn’t easily obtainable anymore. Dive-tenders support deep-sea rig maintainence divers, and those guys make VERY low pay nowadays. The companies have figured workarounds re: labor. (Mentioned in the video)
IF you are paid in the end. People believe those kinds of opportunities because they believe the world is fair so if they work hard and a lot they'll earn the payment. Even the guy in the video said: people worked super hard for years and didn't receive the payment. It's a lie...you were correct! Never fall for the you need to suffer more speech, it's BS.
That statement at the end is hilariously disconnected from the video. It’s like if a man came to your house and beat you with a baseball bat and then stood over you and said “I am committed to peaceful coexistence of man”
*are running the world. Governments are for show/ make people think they have some say, give people something to blame. All while people with all the money pull every string, create systematic pain and suffering. Break communal bonds, separate the people, debilitate anyone who would stand up/organize against, build smart cities and control all the sheeple
And suddenly you think, perhaps the splatter of tomato soup on the van gogh painting was never so badly executed after all. Nothing like what they were advocating against. The judge still saw fit to say: “You clearly think your beliefs give you the right to commit crimes when you feel like it,” he said. “You do not.” These oil companies saw as a right to bypass crimes in the name of profit when they feel like it. They do.
@@mmtravel9726Don't you think people often don't have choices? Take a job that sucks and Feed your family, or starve... Not much choice for many people on this planet.
@@michaelfurlonger5958 Your comment comes across as ignorant. Some people do not have much options, depending on many factors, including where they live. Many people are not fortunate enough to be picky, they just have to grin and bare it, taking Ng whatever is available to feed themselves and family.
Not by believing lies. The extraction industries are naturally dangerous. Its better now than ever. No one is being exploited. Thats the US. Kuwait however is different. What this man did was called concept creep. You passively associated ubiquitous relativity to all conditions. Thats because you yourself are conditioned that way. Its the antithesis of the pursuit of truth and you are far to easily manipulated by mere words. You are not mentally sophisticated enough to sort it by nature and social engineering. Because you know nothing of actual problems you foster non solutions. And thereby are a puppet of people you can scarcely comprehend
@@TheIgnoramus yes but the issues he is talking about could be massively solved if the government had stricter laws and these companies cared about their staff. I don't get the excuse of staff not being allowed to use the toilet or eat food.. it's shocking
The Nam, part of Shell was taking gas out of the ground in the north of the Netherlands ( groningen, where i live ) due to that earthquakes started and houses became unsafe. The are gonna stop drilling and milions are be pump in to that region to compensate. Me and lots of others got thousands of euros. People should speak up more against companies like that
Thank god for the government stopping the drilling. The rest of the netherlands got insane amounts of profit and wealth from it but the amount of people suffering from it does not (in my opinion) compensate the wealth. If it werent for the government they wouldnt ever stop drilling there im sure
I was just a kid when this stuff with the earthquakes was really prevalent. But like a year or so ago even i got €3000 as compensation for emotional distress. I'm 23 nowadays
I'm interested in the intelligence and security apparatuses that Shell uses both directly and indirectly to keep whistleblowers quiet or worse. There's no way they do this much damage regularly without seeing to it certain people don't live to tell. Because that's the power behind the money in the corporate world: it's modern aristocracy, and they need both armies and cloak & dagger operations to "solve" problems that money can't.
Just went through / watched all of these VICE Informer videos and it’s actually completely shocking how there are so many horrible, selfish, evil people in the world The fact that everyone exposing the evil bastards has to wear that mask / have their voice muffled says it all: that by exposing these scumbags for what they’re doing, there’s a high chance they will be threatened, bullied, or killed It makes me sick how there is so much evil in the world
The part where foreign workers not being paid just because they are contractors is very true. What happens is that many of these "contractors" would get a bunch of their Business Development or BD team in suits to tender at a very low price in order to secure a contract. So what happens next is that all these contractors would be understaffed and all site workers would be underpaid. Of course, the employer wouldn't bother very much because firstly, they would claim that it is not their problem and secondly, they wouldnt be able to do anything.
Very well done video. What this person said starkly contrasts with the image that these companies try to paint themselves as in the US, and I assume elsewhere too. Plus the blurb Shell sent you when you reached out about this sounds like something pre-typed that ChatGPT made up. A whole lot of nothing.
I've worked for Shell and a couple of other oil & gas companies as engineer on rigs. First of all what has been said is correct. And it's true for the others as well. They do invest a lot of money and effort into their public appearance though. On the surface it's all diversity, green, environment and bla bla. The truth is that all flies out of the window on the rigs. It might be true in the cushy office jobs in the headquarters but definitely not where the actual work happens. I've quit because my mental health got so insanely bad. Nightmares almost every night, terrible sleep, depression and once I even thought about suicide. But they do pay well, are least when you're from the west, so that's why people work there.
My dad used to work for a french gas company called Perenco (english channel unmanned gas platforms) I could give you nightmares..... My dad used to call his rig "the Perenco ticking time bomb" He once said to me If I never come back home it wasn't an accident. He said you could poke holes in the rusty gas pipes with your fingers.
Ditto. My mom worked in the refineries in Houston for 30+ years. She said the FBI would come in after an incident and tell everyone they were not allowed to tell anyone what happened. When she worked in Kazakhstan, there was a riot at the construction site in the middle of the desert between the Turkish and Greek workers. She and her coworkers had to be rescued by United Nations soldiers. She smuggled some photos out. It was a literal blood bath. Some rooms had pools of blood.
Sadly, this has been very well known for decades, if not well over a century now, and nothing is ever done. There are multiple reasons why everyone should want to see all these oil companies gone after the transition, and this is a main reason. Perhaps we wouldn't be this deep into trouble with Climate Change if there was some justice in the sector early on, but now humanity pays with well deserved karma. If anyone ever asked him/herself why these companies don't do even the bare minimum considering Climate Change which is and will increasingly affect all of us in the future - the corporate culture the informer is talking about there is exactly why. No one tells them what to do, they do whatever they want, and they won't stop doing it ever if they can. And because of how privileged this class is, they are the last ones to die from their actions, so they really don't care. It's all about profit over everything.
If this is new info then yall have had your eyes closed. I’m not saying I support this in any way but I’m not going to boycott an entire gas company that has their stations everywhere.
@@waux Its not that its new, most people know that big gas is exploiting. But the devil is in the details. If people hear the details then a lot more people will think twice about buying from this company. There are also more sustainable options
The oil, and Gas industry is one of the most corrupt, and evil 😈 industries, and needs to be held accountable. My old hometown Aberdeen, NE Scotland has Been messed up with this, and is now one of the worst city's in Scotland, if not the whole UK.
I worked in oil & gas companies for 15 years in canada i stopped working in oil & gas for 7 years now best decision ever, from my experience the men is telling the truth 💯
These oil and gas companies have been a burden on human progress since their inception, they do everything to supress anything that threatens their business model. Their lobbying and capital power against any alternatives or regulation on their industry is an absolute disgrace.
I am a healthy and safety coordinator in oil and gas never worked for shell tho. All large companies, oil and gas and others, exploit poor country’s and their people. It’s disgusting.
People working long hours happens all over the world by anyone working in the blue collar sector. Im a white American male and use to build power plants.I worked on one job that was 7 days a week for 12-16 hrs a day for 6 months straight. It took People messing up on the same thing we did every day and costing the company money before we got 1 day a week off. All of our minds were just shot and exhausted.
Shell's statement summary: "basically everything we do is fine because setting the precedent for safety and health is pretty low so doing anything is pretty much philanthropic at this point. You're welcome world."
I worked on on shell platforms for years in the gulf of mexico and never saw any of these issues until my last deployment. The first time I saw anything unsafe that they refused to resolve I quit and the company man ended up getting fired because I left. How bad they behave probably depends what location you are at.
This usually happens to most gas companies around the world, it's very unfair. Forced labor for employees and not thinking about their health and well being. 😢
Whenever a politician does well in Dutch politics, he or she is sure to get a nice job at SHELL. It also goes the other way: if a young politician has formerly worked for SHELL, he or she is sure to get a good government job. And there are many of those.
@@wildwest1832 as if voting red would help! That is literally voting for crony capitalism and their shills! Educate yourself please, most people who vote red don't even believe that humans could possibly have caused climate change or that oil and gas companies are anything other than wholesome sweethearts
We need to wake up and realize voting blue or red does not matter, the government is not out for our benefit. If we want to see change we have to do it on our own
@@walkmonkey7 while i would say h/w is the more sane choice, they are still heavily invested in the status quo with no real threat to the big oil and gas polluters
Not even comparable, but i bet it will be! and the same ultra rich company's will run that to, and as per usual not stop growth for anyone or anything.
Graphene, sulphur, iron, water, sodium batteries are all looking good. Li will be replaced with a better less toxic type within a few years. They have been just a significant step on the path away from fossil fuels.❤
Companies like Shell are monsters they see people as slaves the people at the too are only seeing money and are laughing at normal humans. Unfortunately this won’t stop as long as psychopaths and sociopaths exist we will have companies like that.
My mom was an offshore analyst for an oil company. I forgot which one. I know she started with Coastal and then El Paso and she moved to another one but she never told me. This is stuff she would be privy to and she never once said anything. She's dead now, so I can't ask her for myself. She would only talk about having lunch with the engineers at high society restaurants.
In an ideal world, we would all start using water-fuelled hydrogen engines, at a fraction of the cost. But the profits are not there for corporations, so the idea has been shelved. Leaving us with fossil fuels and exploding fire-prone electric cars. And videos like this one. The options are there, we have the technology to create virtually free transport for everyone, but not enough profit in it. Showing we have a bad addiction to money, NOT fossil fuels.
I can believe the 31 days on, one day off, work schedule. I have heard of terrible human rights violations, especially in Saudi Arabia. I bet their bosses are making shedloads of money, yet they're literally working their employees to death.
The owners of the land must file a lawsuit with fifty zillion zeroes for the atrocity committed by these multinational companies against the Indigenous peoples.
The only way to stop it is to stop making money for them. The people have and always will have the power when we band together to collectively stop using these products, stop working their jobs, drive your car way less(if feasible). These companies have created an entire society that is run and built using oil products. Unfortunately, that means we have to tear down this one to give a better one a chance.
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I work in the oil & gas (offshore) and I can say this person is 100% accurate. The oil & gas industry needs to be investigated and changes need to be made
Are you still in this industry?
@@giovanna-sf easy for people to take the high ground when they never had to climb the ladder themselves.
@@giovanna-sf You need to educate yourself about what “working in the industry” means, and the different jobs associated with that industry.
I am a paramedic, does that mean I am part of the U.S. Healthcare problem?
What these oil companies are doing to the Earth is atrocious, but the fact that you suggested someone that works in the industry is “part of the problem”, makes it obvious that you don’t fully understand the problem.
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@@SwitchMaxFX yup.
My mom worked for 30+ years in the petrochemical industry. She recently told me about how the *FBI* would show up for some leaks and work site incidents and tell the employees they were not allowed to tell anyone what happened. She said it so casually that it gave the impression of it being a fairly normal occurrence. She also said those incidents would never make it on the news despite having an inevitable effect on the community.
The town i grew up in Houston is so heavily polluted. A lot of people i grew uo with are sick cuz of it. I'm infertile and disabled with a non-hereditray genetic condition. My whole family is healthy but me but I'm the only born and raised on the gulf coast Houston and the only one born inside a chemical plant.
These plants would push propaganda through elementary school outreach programs and buying ads in our high school year books. Our sports fields and uniforms would be bought for by exxon, shell, chevron, dow, dupont, etc. We have been groomed to accept the petrochemical plants as a blessing despite them killing us on the process. Ive got roughly 10 years left if I'm lucky.
Im so sorry, this is beyond cruelty. I don’t even know what to say, there is nothing I can say to comfort you, I dont even have that place, that audacity. I just am really really sad for all of this
@@monkecocuk ♥ no words are needed cuz we are all in this together 🤗 but I can feel your sympathy and good heart. Thanks you!
What town was it if you don't mind me asking? I have family in the Houston area.
@@ponchito97 la porte, deer park, Pasadena, and Baytown. Essentially the entire area surrounding the ship channel from Galveston Bay up to the 610 Bridge all along hwy 225 and then moving along the coast to Texas City.
Never noticed til now that those of us who grew up in the petrochemical industry tended to gravitate to the petrochemical towns. I mean, all our parents worked at the plants or ship channel and there is a marked culture and economic shift when you go to the towns just outside the area like League City and clear lake despite being just next door. 🤔
Also gott consider the ship channel. My dad worked on the barges and tug boats. The water out there is unbelievably bad. A friend and I felt wild and jumped in the water once. We came out covered in a thin shiny film. People go fishing and crabbing in that water!!! And eat em!!! Baffles my mind
FYI a hydrogen sulfur chemical release just happened in Deer Park. The town is under a shelter in place. One person dead. Multiple injured.
My dad worked offshore for 25+ years. One month non stop work, two weeks home. He’s now diagnosed schizophrenia, bipolar, and has PTSD & severe depression. he’s been retired 8 years but still acts like he lives on the rig. People are convinced into oil & gas bc the pay is so well. But at what cost.
Your dad being schizo and bipolar has zero to do with him working on a rig and everything to do with sht genetics or drug use.
Really sorry! Poor fam 😢
Pray for this whistleblowers safety
yes!! thoughts and prayers
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@@seriouscomedy936yes! This is always by far the most effective action to bring about change !
@@bungle0261 we must pray harder!!
@@seriouscomedy936 oh FFS I forgot which God I was supposed to be speaking to...
Guess I'll just do all of them .
Surely there isn't many ?
My stepdad worked offshore for 40 years. The only story he told me was working the crane for 40+ hours straight and falling asleep while doing it and dropping stuff from the crane. He followed that story with the words, "I can tell you horror stories."
I wonderm, why that even is neccessary. Lack of personnel?
Yikes! Curious about this
Just so you know from Shell's statement "low-carbon solutions" includes natural gas.
and nitrogen fertilizer depends on it
Do not believe oil companies when they talk of investing in green energy.
What they are doing is buying out any companies and technologies which could hurt their bottom line. They ”run it” for a while (keep it in a limbo) until share price drops, which it inevitably does because oil and gas is a very volitile sector, and make ”emergency neccesary budget cuts” scrapping all the green energy projects they bought up.
BP did this just a few months ago
I used to work as scuba instructor staying on remote island for months at a time and from time to time there will be waves of solidified oil which looked like black goos washing ashore and sometimes it goes as far as the eyes can see which are like small black dots on the surface, the local told me that it got worse in the past decades, which was horrifying especially knowing that you’re on a REMOTE island
The answer from Shell looks like a prompt from ChatGTP
Sadly, they paid some office worker many times more than the poor guys on the rig out in the middle of the ocean.
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Where can I find the answer? :)
Well ChatGPT was trained on data available on the internet, which includes all the generic PR statements like this companies have made for decades. But yeah this was probably created by a team of PR people at Shell, vetted by their lawyers and approved by a VP. I'm sure Shell does have all kinds of trainings, safety policies and officials in place doing what they say in their statement, but a lot of lower level site managers ignore it and even site level workers have a "be a man, work hard, don't complain, and safety rules just make things harder" mentality. Also, like mentioned in the video, contracting companies are used so Shell can say they did their part for their employees but they have no control over contractors as a loophole.
@@Will_Grow_PlantsI believe the guys on offshore rigs (in Europe and North America at least) get paid really well. Usually it's like 3 months on and 3 months off or something like that but they'll pull in 6 figures.
And our government is basically controlled by these people 😭
womp womp
and when you scream about gun control, THOSE are the people who would be controlling the guns.
@@mikebergman1817 people who scream about gun control just want back ground checks so crazies/ terrorist don’t get them, not for the government to take all guns but people like you can’t seem to understand that
And we are the customers of these people.
Our government ARE these people. They are all one of the same.
I seen a dude get blasted by a hydraulic line that ruptured the fitting with remaining hose was hanging out his face his family was told he fell off the rig
OMG, did he survive?
No@@shanzfendi
@@shanzfendiwhat u think
@@shanzfendi Obviously not.
@@shanzfendi pretty sure they couldnt tell the family he fell off the rig if he survived.
Its funny, the other day I was having a debate with someone over younger generations not being able to find jobs that pay well.
The guy I was talking to said, "stop complaining and just get a job on an oil rig for 6 months. Theyll pay you like $200,000 and youre set for the rest of the year. Easy." I told him it wasnt a viable option for alot of people and he laughed at me and said nobody wants to do hard jobs anymore. This video made me feel validated. IDK who could watch this video and think, "here is an easy, entry level job that pays super well"
😂 cuz a 5 foot single mom of 4 can just get a job on an oil rig as a crane operator like it's no big deal 🤦🏻♀️ guess he isn't aware that there are a finite number of crane operator positions available and if the market is flooded with applicants, the pay scale will rapidly go down?
Even if you’re a single, able-bodied, male, the trade-off that *used to* be done: “trade my safety & location for money that’s better than fast-food jobs” isn’t easily obtainable anymore. Dive-tenders support deep-sea rig maintainence divers, and those guys make VERY low pay nowadays. The companies have figured workarounds re: labor. (Mentioned in the video)
yep, the typical braindead “just go to the plants” line that usually lands everyone in deadly scaffold builder jobs and such.
You’re risking your life for a paycheck that won’t even last you your lifespan
IF you are paid in the end. People believe those kinds of opportunities because they believe the world is fair so if they work hard and a lot they'll earn the payment. Even the guy in the video said: people worked super hard for years and didn't receive the payment.
It's a lie...you were correct! Never fall for the you need to suffer more speech, it's BS.
I believe the informant. Sadly, nothing will be done.
DONT COME TO TEXAS .. 😈
does anything need to be done?
@@wildwest1832 QUIT that job, if it's such evil.
It will stop when you walk to work everyday. Actually when work doesn't exist and we go back to hunter gathers.
@@yeahok115sure I agree...
That statement at the end is hilariously disconnected from the video. It’s like if a man came to your house and beat you with a baseball bat and then stood over you and said “I am committed to peaceful coexistence of man”
The same people will be running the world, no matter the fuel source tbh.
Exploitation is endemic in capitalism.
*are running the world. Governments are for show/ make people think they have some say, give people something to blame. All while people with all the money pull every string, create systematic pain and suffering. Break communal bonds, separate the people, debilitate anyone who would stand up/organize against, build smart cities and control all the sheeple
And in communism
@godostoyke5345 You would be right I guess, had it ever truly existed.
Both of you are wrong. It's evil nature in human beings that no matter what system we have, it will always fall pray to humans.
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Once clean water gets rare everyone is in for a rude awakening
From the Great Lake State- INDEED! My biggest concern all my life.
We live in a dystopian nightmare.
And suddenly you think, perhaps the splatter of tomato soup on the van gogh painting was never so badly executed after all. Nothing like what they were advocating against. The judge still saw fit to say: “You clearly think your beliefs give you the right to commit crimes when you feel like it,” he said. “You do not.”
These oil companies saw as a right to bypass crimes in the name of profit when they feel like it. They do.
Corporate greed isn't a buzz word
so impressed by the pain and courage of this person. Deep bow to you
Shell has cost me 9 years of my life after i ran myself into a burnout and im still recovering if i ever do
Wishing you peace and lack of pain. it's hellish. you deserve better ❤
You chose to work for them - chose it for 9 years…
@@mmtravel9726Don't you think people often don't have choices? Take a job that sucks and Feed your family, or starve... Not much choice for many people on this planet.
@@TempleOvBlackLightthere is always choice. To think otherwise is ignorant.
@@michaelfurlonger5958 Your comment comes across as ignorant. Some people do not have much options, depending on many factors, including where they live. Many people are not fortunate enough to be picky, they just have to grin and bare it, taking Ng whatever is available to feed themselves and family.
Ain’t nothing new under the sun…only us the people can stop these things.
Not by believing lies. The extraction industries are naturally dangerous. Its better now than ever. No one is being exploited. Thats the US. Kuwait however is different.
What this man did was called concept creep. You passively associated ubiquitous relativity to all conditions.
Thats because you yourself are conditioned that way.
Its the antithesis of the pursuit of truth and you are far to easily manipulated by mere words. You are not mentally sophisticated enough to sort it by nature and social engineering.
Because you know nothing of actual problems you foster non solutions. And thereby are a puppet of people you can scarcely comprehend
Do not work for those/them! Easy as air.
No the company should regulate and care about safety towards their staff
@@aurora6920it’s both. And more. Life ain’t so simple.
@@TheIgnoramus yes but the issues he is talking about could be massively solved if the government had stricter laws and these companies cared about their staff. I don't get the excuse of staff not being allowed to use the toilet or eat food.. it's shocking
The Nam, part of Shell was taking gas out of the ground in the north of the Netherlands ( groningen, where i live ) due to that earthquakes started and houses became unsafe. The are gonna stop drilling and milions are be pump in to that region to compensate. Me and lots of others got thousands of euros. People should speak up more against companies like that
Thank god for the government stopping the drilling. The rest of the netherlands got insane amounts of profit and wealth from it but the amount of people suffering from it does not (in my opinion) compensate the wealth.
If it werent for the government they wouldnt ever stop drilling there im sure
A couple of thousand euros isnt gonne save your house as in cover th3 cost of making it safe again
@@danielstokker was more then couple thousand. There not there yet but i think there on good path with the compensations
I was just a kid when this stuff with the earthquakes was really prevalent. But like a year or so ago even i got €3000 as compensation for emotional distress. I'm 23 nowadays
I'm interested in the intelligence and security apparatuses that Shell uses both directly and indirectly to keep whistleblowers quiet or worse. There's no way they do this much damage regularly without seeing to it certain people don't live to tell. Because that's the power behind the money in the corporate world: it's modern aristocracy, and they need both armies and cloak & dagger operations to "solve" problems that money can't.
Got that right 😢
Just went through / watched all of these VICE Informer videos and it’s actually completely shocking how there are so many horrible, selfish, evil people in the world
The fact that everyone exposing the evil bastards has to wear that mask / have their voice muffled says it all: that by exposing these scumbags for what they’re doing, there’s a high chance they will be threatened, bullied, or killed
It makes me sick how there is so much evil in the world
The part where foreign workers not being paid just because they are contractors is very true. What happens is that many of these "contractors" would get a bunch of their Business Development or BD team in suits to tender at a very low price in order to secure a contract. So what happens next is that all these contractors would be understaffed and all site workers would be underpaid. Of course, the employer wouldn't bother very much because firstly, they would claim that it is not their problem and secondly, they wouldnt be able to do anything.
Very well done video. What this person said starkly contrasts with the image that these companies try to paint themselves as in the US, and I assume elsewhere too. Plus the blurb Shell sent you when you reached out about this sounds like something pre-typed that ChatGPT made up. A whole lot of nothing.
I've worked for Shell and a couple of other oil & gas companies as engineer on rigs. First of all what has been said is correct. And it's true for the others as well. They do invest a lot of money and effort into their public appearance though. On the surface it's all diversity, green, environment and bla bla. The truth is that all flies out of the window on the rigs. It might be true in the cushy office jobs in the headquarters but definitely not where the actual work happens. I've quit because my mental health got so insanely bad. Nightmares almost every night, terrible sleep, depression and once I even thought about suicide. But they do pay well, are least when you're from the west, so that's why people work there.
Quit bc mental health suffered badly... from the general corruption?
Lying azzz
Been waiting for an informer video thank you!
My dad used to work for a french gas company called Perenco (english channel unmanned gas platforms)
I could give you nightmares.....
My dad used to call his rig "the Perenco ticking time bomb"
He once said to me If I never come back home it wasn't an accident. He said you could poke holes in the rusty gas pipes with your fingers.
😲😲😲😲
Ditto. My mom worked in the refineries in Houston for 30+ years. She said the FBI would come in after an incident and tell everyone they were not allowed to tell anyone what happened.
When she worked in Kazakhstan, there was a riot at the construction site in the middle of the desert between the Turkish and Greek workers. She and her coworkers had to be rescued by United Nations soldiers. She smuggled some photos out. It was a literal blood bath. Some rooms had pools of blood.
@@lolalalia4119 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Not surprised, tbh 🙄
Sadly, this has been very well known for decades, if not well over a century now, and nothing is ever done. There are multiple reasons why everyone should want to see all these oil companies gone after the transition, and this is a main reason. Perhaps we wouldn't be this deep into trouble with Climate Change if there was some justice in the sector early on, but now humanity pays with well deserved karma.
If anyone ever asked him/herself why these companies don't do even the bare minimum considering Climate Change which is and will increasingly affect all of us in the future - the corporate culture the informer is talking about there is exactly why. No one tells them what to do, they do whatever they want, and they won't stop doing it ever if they can. And because of how privileged this class is, they are the last ones to die from their actions, so they really don't care. It's all about profit over everything.
More safety officers need to speak out - this is really insightful and the world needs to know the truth! 😮
My key takeaway from this video: Shell is a monster, stop buying gas from this company
If this is new info then yall have had your eyes closed. I’m not saying I support this in any way but I’m not going to boycott an entire gas company that has their stations everywhere.
You’re an idiot if you don’t think this is all oil and gas companies 🙄
@@waux Its not that its new, most people know that big gas is exploiting. But the devil is in the details. If people hear the details then a lot more people will think twice about buying from this company. There are also more sustainable options
Every other company is just as bad, and we live in an economy and political system that's tied at the hip to the industry. We need a revolution
Stop buying gas, period. Electric vehicles are out there now and are becoming more affordable on the used market.
The oil, and Gas industry is one of the most corrupt, and evil 😈 industries, and needs to be held accountable.
My old hometown Aberdeen, NE Scotland has Been messed up with this, and is now one of the worst city's in Scotland, if not the whole UK.
I'm a Petroleum Engineer, sadly that's true.
I hope nothing bad comes to her for shareing this.
I’ll never forget the time an intern found Shell to be the best oil and gas / mining company in the west for biodiversity.
biodiversity?
I worked in oil & gas companies for 15 years in canada i stopped working in oil & gas for 7 years now best decision ever, from my experience the men is telling the truth 💯
sir i might have some questions, in term of money or salary is it worth the risk you take?
@@mirflurryis it worth the risk money wise yes / is it worth the risk of damaging your physical health no ☹️
These oil and gas companies have been a burden on human progress since their inception, they do everything to supress anything that threatens their business model. Their lobbying and capital power against any alternatives or regulation on their industry is an absolute disgrace.
During these interviews, you can hear the trembling in their voices.
This made me so sad to hear.
I am a healthy and safety coordinator in oil and gas never worked for shell tho.
All large companies, oil and gas and others, exploit poor country’s and their people. It’s disgusting.
*countries 😊
People working long hours happens all over the world by anyone working in the blue collar sector.
Im a white American male and use to build power plants.I worked on one job that was 7 days a week for 12-16 hrs a day for 6 months straight.
It took People messing up on the same thing we did every day and costing the company money before we got 1 day a week off.
All of our minds were just shot and exhausted.
Money demands zero change.
That’s absolutely crazy ….. do you think you can get me in contact with her tho ??? Asking for a friend
Some friends who graduated with me chose that path (off-shore) for their careers and they’ve all dropped out of it prior to 10 years in the job.
The smell of pollution in the air gets worse everyday . . .
Not many things we use day to day have zero oil in them. It's so deep into society it'll never go away.
What a nightmare. Please look into the Kingston TN coal ash spill, it was never fully cleaned, it’s a huge cover up that goes deep
Shell's statement summary: "basically everything we do is fine because setting the precedent for safety and health is pretty low so doing anything is pretty much philanthropic at this point. You're welcome world."
And yet there’s a way to power cars with just water!
There is no such a thing as good corporate citizen
I frankly hope this guy is alright after saying all of this to the public through VICE 😢
I worked on on shell platforms for years in the gulf of mexico and never saw any of these issues until my last deployment. The first time I saw anything unsafe that they refused to resolve I quit and the company man ended up getting fired because I left. How bad they behave probably depends what location you are at.
How do we get out of this when the system doesn’t let us an alternative…?
Obviously corporations like this need thorough 3rd party inspections.
What do we do? Like, what can we actually do?
This the VICE we love 🙌🏾
This usually happens to most gas companies around the world, it's very unfair. Forced labor for employees and not thinking about their health and well being. 😢
this is horrific
oil & gas company earn billions of dollar and wanted to save money through workers? that's why people always say "rich guy is a stingy guy"
Good and necessary vid. People are waking up.
Whenever a politician does well in Dutch politics, he or she is sure to get a nice job at SHELL.
It also goes the other way: if a young politician has formerly worked for SHELL, he or she is sure to get a good government job.
And there are many of those.
Hats down for speaking up
When you get this kind of treatment at your job, what can you do?
How do we organize on a mass scale?
If you're American, vote blue across the board. It's not a fix, but it'll prevent things from worsening.
vote all red so we have more open unbiased news sources, and dont need to listen to more of this nonsense. Censorship is bad.
@@wildwest1832 as if voting red would help! That is literally voting for crony capitalism and their shills! Educate yourself please, most people who vote red don't even believe that humans could possibly have caused climate change or that oil and gas companies are anything other than wholesome sweethearts
We need to wake up and realize voting blue or red does not matter, the government is not out for our benefit. If we want to see change we have to do it on our own
@@walkmonkey7 while i would say h/w is the more sane choice, they are still heavily invested in the status quo with no real threat to the big oil and gas polluters
this should have 100 billions views
Shell's message is so AI generated xD
wonder how this compares to lithium mining.
Not even comparable, but i bet it will be! and the same ultra rich company's will run that to, and as per usual not stop growth for anyone or anything.
They want to rip up the Black Hills in SD for lithium mining, they want to United States to be a slum
Tenure of activity has to be taken into account. These companies have been actively suppressing any threats to their business for a very long time.
Way more toxic and much more deadly
Graphene, sulphur, iron, water, sodium batteries are all looking good. Li will be replaced with a better less toxic type within a few years. They have been just a significant step on the path away from fossil fuels.❤
Great stuff people 👏
The Greed of these people is absolutely disgusting and they should go to hell for that. Humanity is horrible
gonna cite this for a science project im doing on big oil = bad thanks vice youve been covering good stories, especially this one in my opinion.
Youcan tell Google is not happy this on RUclips. 🔥💯
Weve known forever this was happenung. How many times am i going to hear this story?
I had no knowledge on this
The power of PR & Comms professionals
I want to wear that mask during my next zoom meeting.
Truly sad😢
Yes yes.
Everbody has to stand as one and say no more.
Thank's
It isn't "We can't have nice things," but rather "We will never have nice things." As one solution comes two new problems
Highly concerning that employees, past and present, have to cancel their identity to speak out. The rot of corruption and injustice has gone deep 😢
We will all be dust eventually. Profitability is the new ethics.
They'll use the alternative the same way
so sad. 😮😟
The background music is unbearable
Companies like Shell are monsters they see people as slaves the people at the too are only seeing money and are laughing at normal humans. Unfortunately this won’t stop as long as psychopaths and sociopaths exist we will have companies like that.
Now keep in mind the biggest concern in regards to climate change right now is ocean warming...
My mom was an offshore analyst for an oil company. I forgot which one. I know she started with Coastal and then El Paso and she moved to another one but she never told me. This is stuff she would be privy to and she never once said anything. She's dead now, so I can't ask her for myself. She would only talk about having lunch with the engineers at high society restaurants.
Legalize finding the people responsible and doing things I'm not allowed to talk about on this platform
Shell is playing hard ball!
Just goes to show how the shell company has been paying ppl off for yrs.
Sad so sad.
makes me think of Shina in Final Fantasy 7
Crazy. This is unbelievable
In an ideal world, we would all start using water-fuelled hydrogen engines, at a fraction of the cost. But the profits are not there for corporations, so the idea has been shelved. Leaving us with fossil fuels and exploding fire-prone electric cars. And videos like this one. The options are there, we have the technology to create virtually free transport for everyone, but not enough profit in it. Showing we have a bad addiction to money, NOT fossil fuels.
No wonder I saw and felt something evil and wicked behind the brand. I use Arco, Sam's Club, or CostCo gas instead.
I can believe the 31 days on, one day off, work schedule. I have heard of terrible human rights violations, especially in Saudi Arabia. I bet their bosses are making shedloads of money, yet they're literally working their employees to death.
This is disgusting !!!🤢 WOW😮😮😮😮
The owners of the land must file a lawsuit with fifty zillion zeroes for the atrocity committed by these multinational companies against the Indigenous peoples.
Truly shocking. But I'm still not gluing myself to a motorway.
The only way to stop it is to stop making money for them. The people have and always will have the power when we band together to collectively stop using these products, stop working their jobs, drive your car way less(if feasible).
These companies have created an entire society that is run and built using oil products. Unfortunately, that means we have to tear down this one to give a better one a chance.
It's not profit for them, it's control. But it's slipping through their fingers.
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾
Not like the epa was targeted or anything