THE SUNDAY BUSINESS POST (IRELAND): Rossmore Five: Party loyalties split in battle over pipeline
“The ‘Free the Rossport Five’ campaign offers considerable scope for broadsides on the government’s policy towards Shell – from the safety of the pipeline to tax reliefs and their exemption from paying royalties to the state.”
Sunday 24 July 2005
By Niamh Connolly
Mayo is a hotbed of political rivalry. This has been helped in no small part by the David-and-Goliath battle between local landowners and fuel giant Shell over the safety of the gas pipeline it is building in Rossport in the north-west of the county.
Protest rallies held yesterday in Dublin and across Mayo against the jailing of five Mayo farmers for obstructing Shell’s pipeline are providing opposition candidates with an invaluable early election platform. The five are now in their third week in prison.
The ‘Free the Rossport Five’ campaign offers considerable scope for broadsides on the government’s policy towards Shell – from the safety of the pipeline to tax reliefs and their exemption from paying royalties to the state.
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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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