Christians who hold shares in oil giant Royal Dutch Shell are being asked to support a move to make the company more socially and economically accountable to those at the receiving end of its operations.
The Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR), an organisation supported by Christian Aid and others which works to promote shareholder activism in the UK churches, is planning to bring a resolution calling for greater responsibility to the company’s 2006 Annual General Meeting.
ECCR believes that Shell’s impact on some of its ‘frontline’ communities – those living close to its operations – “merits urgent attention.”
The ecumenical pressure group is especially concerned about local communities and the environment close to Shell facilities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, County Mayo in Ireland and on Sakhalin Island off the coast of Russia.
The AGM resolution calls for “a major improvement in Shell’s performance in terms of community and stakeholder consultation, risk analysis, and social and environmental impact analysis.”
In 2004, Christian Aid, the UK-based development and relief agency, criticised the UK and Netherlands-based oil multinational for failing to prevent and clean up oil spills and for dividing communities around its Niger Delta operations.
In ‘Behind the Mask’, a critique of corporate responsibility, Christian Aid called on Shell to set up arms-length funding of community development projects and for a more prompt response to environmental problems.
Only 100 Shell shareholders are needed to co-sign the resolution before the end of February 2006, the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility points out. Further details and the resolution wording and supporting statement are available at www.eccr.org.uk.
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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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