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London Evening Standard: Hewitt set to sign China trade deals
11 May 2004
TRADE Secretary Patricia Hewitt was today set to sign contracts worth £850m with her Chinese counterpart, Bo Xilai, for British companies working in China.
The deals cover link-ups between BP and Royal Dutch/Shell and two Chinese oil companies. They also involve DIY retailer Kingfisher and a Chinese home appliances maker.
The Independent: Intelligent Energy plans flotation to develop fuel cells
By Michael Harrison, Business Editor
11 May 2004
An energy company specialising in fuel cell technology, which includes the former Social Democrat leader Lord Owen and the Russian oil company Yukos among its shareholders, is to float on the London stock market with an expected price tag of about £120m.
Intelligent Energy, which was founded three years ago and already boasts a blue-chip client list including Boeing and one of the world’s top five car manufacturers, is aiming to raise between £40m and £60m when it lists on the Alternative Investment Market next month.
TimesOnline: Shell dividends are still flowing
May 08, 2004
Posted 11 May 04
Stella Shamoon provides her regular update on the performance of the Share of the Month portfolio
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Shell’s first-quarter adjusted net income rose 9 per cent to $4.25 billion (£2.37 billion), albeit buoyed by exceptional gains. But a $2 billion share buyback and a $2 billion increase in capital expenditure (with only $200 million being spent on pure exploration) was comforting after so many nasty surprises.
Shell is strong, gushing cash and dripping dividends. So I am not selling my shares now, not least because it is under pressure to reform its antiquated and opaque structure. Nor am I selling my shares in ENI and Schlumberger. The oil price is red hot and so, sadly, is geopolitical risk. Hold all.
Financial Times: Score of Shell
Published: May 11 2004
Here’s a clue from Royal Dutch/Shell that, in the face of demands by some investors for a governance overhaul, any change is unlikely to shift the balance of power at the oil giant.
Jeroen van der Veer, appointed chairman two months ago after its incredible shrinking reserves brought the departure of Sir Philip Watts, tiptoed around the issue when grilled on a Dutch chat-show.
Having said it would be wrong to speculate on the outcome due next month of a review of the group’s century-old dual-board structure, Van der Veer seemed to do just that.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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MORE DETAILS: After a solicitor acting for Shell threatened to make the litigation "drawn out and difficult" with the intention of draining the resources of a financially weaker opponent, my late father (Alfred Donovan) and I decided to mount a wide-ranging campaign as a counter-measure. We jointly founded the Shell Corporate Conscience Pressure Group, which nearly 15% of Shell UK retailers joined. We regularly conducted ethical surveys involving up to 1500 Shell petrol stations. All responses were opened and authenticated by an independent solicitor who supplied Affidavits confirming the results. In whole page announcements in trade magazines (examples above) we challenged Shell to commission and publish the resuits of independent research asking the same questions and offering respondents GUARANTEED anonymity. Shell never took up the invitation. Instead it asked the UK Advertising Standards Authority to investigate our Shell surveys. No problems were found. The head-cut image of Alfred Donovan appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal. 
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