Daily Express: Shell Chief’s scientific outlook
Friday 24 June 2005
City & Business Editor: Stephen Kahn: email: [email protected]
Article by Andrew Johnson
CHIEF EXECUTIVE Jeroen van der Veer is to beef up Shell’s science and technology work as part of moves to show there is life after the oil giant’s disastrous recent past.
Outlining where he would like the company to be in 1o years, van der Veer said innovation would play a crucial role in giving it a competitive edge.
The move comes ahead of the company’s annual meeting on Tuesday, when shareholders are expected to rubber-stamp a revamp of Shell’s three-board, two company structure to a single board and company.
Van der Veer said he believed hydrocarbons would still dominate energy in 2015. The group would increase research and development spending and appoint 10 chief scientists in order to give senior jobs to technical staff. A “Mr or Mrs CO2” would make sure Shell exploited opportunities provided by carbon trading and dumping carbon dioxide in the North Sea.
The group also planned to increase its number of multi-billion-dollar projects, from three to 10 by 2015. Oil extracted from difficult locations would be increasingly important. he said.
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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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