Shell Beats Climate Cult In Dutch Appeals Court Case

It’s easier to win when the climate cult finds friendly judges than when a real world court hears the case

Shell wins appeal in Dutch court after three-year battle against green groups

Climate activists won against Shell in 2021 when a Dutch court commanded the oil giant to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by the end of 2030. Three years later, Shell managed to win its appeal against this ruling. In the court’s view, Shell doesn’t have a “social standard of care” to curtail emissions, the BBC reports.

The 2021 ruling was noteworthy, as it was the first time a court made a private company obey the 2015 Paris Agreement in addition to Dutch law. However, the appeals court judge said that while Shell had an obligation to reduce emissions, a 45 percent cut could not be established as there is no universally accepted amount. Shell’s statement says it’s planning to reduce its products’ carbon intensity by a comparatively paltry 15 to 20 percent by 2030 compared to a 2016 baseline.

The 2021 ruling would only be effective in the Netherlands as well. Shell wouldn’t have been legally obligated to follow the lower court’s ruling for its operations outside Dutch territory. Now even that small gain is off the table for now.

The activists, who are largely associated with Milieudefensie (the Dutch branch of Friends of the Earth), issued a statement promising to continue the fight against climate change. “Large polluters are powerful. But united, we as people have the power to change them,” said Donald Pols, Director of Milieudefensie. They’re now trying to take the case to the Supreme Court, but getting a final verdict will likely take years.

Too bad the court didn’t ask the plaintiffs if they have given up their own use of fossil fuels and made their own lives carbon neutral.

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5 Responses to “Shell Beats Climate Cult In Dutch Appeals Court Case”

  1. Kye says:

    So far at least two counties in Pennsylvania have decided to count illegal ballots in the usual democrat style of stealing elections. Not one Democrat has spoken against it. Nothing will change these power mad commies but brute force.

  2. Wylie1 says:

    Make the plaintiffs pay the Defense expenses. This shit will stop REAL fast.

  3. Elwood P Dowd says:

    Governor Shapiro (D-PA) agreed with the PA Supreme Court NOT to count the ballots without a date or an incorrect date.

    Hanging chad!!

    • Jl says:

      Except of course the Pennsylvania SC had already issued that order earlier, so Shapiro waited until the second time the children needed to be told what not to do.
      Another example of “there’s no cheating in elections…

  4. James Lewis says:

    Chicken Little Hamas Karen Man (??)

    The question is this. Will the Democrats do what the courts have directed?

    History says they won’t.

    Cheating is in their genes.

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