By Carl Mortished
OFFSHORE oil unions have called for corporate manslaughter legislation in Scotland after the conclusion of a fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of two workers on a Shell North Sea platform.
The six-month investigation into the deaths on Brent Bravo in September 2003 concluded that the accident could have been avoided if Shell had done a proper repair of a pipe. The inquiry did not draw any wider conclusion from its finding. The OILC union said yesterday that Shell had been given a “Get out of Jail Free card”.
The victims, Keith Moncrieff and Sean McCue, died from a huge gas escape from an illegal repair to a corroded pipe when they descended into the concrete leg of the platform to make an inspection. The repair, done with neoprene rubber and a hose clip, was against regulations, the inquiry found.
In 2004, Shell admitted three breaches of health and safety rules and was fined £900,000. It said yesterday that it accepted the inquiry findings.
Concern about North Sea safety and the condition of rusting platforms grew last month when Bill Campbell, a former Shell engineer, revealed details of a platform safety maintenance review done in 1999 on Brent Bravo. His audit team found widespread violations of safety procedures and alleged falsification of records.
Mr Campbell, who retired from Shell in 2002, believes that the Brent Bravo deaths could have been prevented had the company responded adequately to his finding that platform maintenance was being delayed to sustain oil and gas output. He tried to put his evidence to the inquiry, but the presiding sheriff declined to admit it on the ground that it was beyond the inquiry’s scope.
Shell says that it accepted the 1999 audit’s findings and responded with improvements, although it said that subsequent inquiries found no verifiable evidence of falsification by platform management.
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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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