Safety consultant goes viral for leaving Shell after a decade, says ‘core business’ is dangerous

Safety consultant goes viral for leaving Shell after a decade, says ‘core business’ is dangerous

At 8:27 a.m. on Monday morning, May 23, Caroline Dennett emailed 1,400 executives at the oil and gas conglomerate, , to announce her resignation after 11 years working as a safety consultant. Dennett, who is based near London, asked executives and management at Shell "to look in the mirror and ask themselves if they really believe their vision for more oil and gas extraction secures a safe future for humanity." Dennett later posted a screenshot of her resignation email, a one minute and 12 second video in which she speaks directly into the camera explaining her decision, and a written explanation of her decision on the . In the time since, her LinkedIn post has gotten almost 10,000 reactions and more than 800 comments, some supportive of Dennett and some supportive of Shell. Her market research business, , started working with Shell in 2011 after BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico ushered in a new emphasis on safety precautions throughout the oil and gas industry. She was brought on to design, pilot and manage surveys of workers to get a sense of how rigorously safety precautions were being followed. With the information collected, Dennett would make