Canatxx chief executive Dennis Volter said the company was also in negotiations to buy the old Shellsite at Rhosgoch near Amlwch to build a 1200 megawatt power plant.
Was the parody aspect of the fake Shellsite obvious (or should have been to anyone, but the most gullible) or was the parody so skillfully disguised by Greenpeace that it constitutes affirmative deceit and calculated misrepresentation?
What makes this incident so unique is the combination of the fake web site and the subsequent fake Shell Twitter account supposedly in response to the fake web site.
Three east coast refineries have been shut down in the past four months (first Sunoco, then Valero, and most recently Shell announced Jan. 7 it would shutter its Montreal refinery and turn the site into an oil terminal).
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management requested that NOAA investigate the site after it was originally detected as an "unknown sonar contact" by Shell Oil Company during a 2011 oil and gas survey of the Gulf, government officials said.