On the heels of a scathing government audit, and a globally unprecedented preventive closure of its refinery facilities in Buenos Aires Argentina, local groups have filed an international complaint against Shell calling for immediate action by the company to redress the social and environmental harms caused by the refinery to the community and to the local environment...INPADE (a local NGO) and Friend of the Earth Argentina...presented parallel complaints...against SHELL CAPSA (the Argentine affiliate of ROYAL DUTCH SHELL)...SHELL...signed an agreement to correct its violations and invest some US$80million to improve its sub-standard environmental management.