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An original investor, the largest single shareholder of Royal Dutch/Shell is the holding company for the Dutch Royal Family, set up by Queen [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands]].
Over the years Shell has been criticized by environmental and human rights groups for a number of their operations, especially in [[South Africa]] and [[Nigeria]]. Their involvement in [[Nigeria]] came to the forefront after the execution of dissident [[Ken Saro-Wiwa]] and eight others. Shell was also attacked by [[Greenpeace]] for plans to sink into the [[North Atlantic]] the [[Brent Spar]], an old oil transport and hub station in the [[North Sea]], and eventually agreed to disassemble it onshore in Norway, although Shell has always maintained (supported by third party advice) that's its origin plan to sink the platform was safer and better for the environment.
In the United States, Shell has recently run a major advertising campaign to promote claims of higher mileage by using their gasolines.
In Canada, Shell Canada settled a lawsuit in which an additive in their gasolines created problems on fuel guages, especially in autmobiles produced by the American [[Big Three]].
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