Globe&Mail.com: Influence doesn’t require power, Shell CEO says
By Richard Bloom
Saturday, June 5, 2004 – Page B7
Departing Shell Canada Ltd. president and chief executive officer Linda Cook says women don’t have to be born into power or privilege to exert influence on society, noting that women from all walks of life have made significant impacts on the world.
“Don’t forget that, for thousands of years, women have honed their skills as influencers without overt power. As wives and mothers we have cajoled and persuaded to great effect,” said Ms. Cook, above, in a keynote address to a Women of Influence luncheon of nearly 1,000 people.
The speech in Toronto was her second-last public address as head of the company. In August, Ms. Cook will become a managing director of Shell Canada parent Royal Dutch/Shell Group in the Netherlands after only a year at her post in Calgary.
The promotion comes as Royal Dutch tries to improve its reputation following a massive reserve reporting fiasco this year that saw the company downgrade 20 per cent of its reserves from “proven” to less certain categories. Three other downgrades followed, for a total reduction in reserves of 23 per cent, or 4.47 billion barrels.
During a brief interview with reporters after the luncheon, she would not comment on the reserves issue nor on her new job.
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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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