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Published: Wednesday, January 10, 2007
FORT McMURRAY — Fort McMurray, in Canada’s western oil-sands belt, is so rich it’s known as Fort McMoney. Yet local officials are pleading for government handouts.
“Even if we doubled taxes for every ratepayer, we still wouldn’t be able to achieve all that we need,” says Melissa Blake, mayor of the sprawling Alberta municipality of Wood Buffalo, which includes the urban center of Fort McMurray.
Oil-sands investments of more than $50 billion have brought in swarms of workers. The result: Roads, schools, water supplies and other services in Fort McMurray can’t keep up. The city says its population will almost triple to 100,000 by 2012 from 1996, when oil-sands investments started taking off.
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
