Business Report: take one share to Shell AGM
By Edward West
June 28, 2004
Cape Town – One share in Royal Dutch/Shell bought for £0.25 (R2.80) has enabled two environmental activists from South Africa, Desmond D’Sa and Ardiel Soeker, to attend the oil multinational’s annual meeting (AGM) in London today, where they will join a delegation spotlighting the group’s environmental record.
D’Sa is from an organisation called groundWork, while Soeker is from the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance. The two bodies had joined a network of environmental groups, headed by Friends of the Earth, to draw attention to the environmental plight of communities adjacent to Shell’s operations around the world, said spokesperson Ferrial Adam.
Last week Friends of the Earth launched a report accusing Shell, already under scrutiny for overstating its oil reserves, of polluting communities, damaging wildlife habitats and failing to live up to its promise of environmental and social responsibility.
D’Sa and Soeker wish to ask directors why they have not honoured a commitment made at last year’s meeting to clean up the Sapref refinery in Durban.
They intend to complain about Sapref’s “antiquated and leaking pipelines” and wish to question Shell’s apparent double standards of providing cleaner facilities in northern countries like Denmark, while providing dirtier facilities in South Africa.
They also want to know why the refinery is not dealing with its environmental issues, instead trying to “greenwash with feel-good projects such as new playgrounds and scholarships”.
Paddy Milner, a director of Shell South Africa, admitted that the pipelines at the refinery were old.
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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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