Aberdeen City Council has today welcomed Shell UK Limited’s announcement that it plans to invest £25million in new offices in the City.
The state-of-the-art building at Tullos would house around 950 staff, securing and creating new employment in Aberdeen.
This significant commitment to the North-east and the future of the North Sea by a major player in the international oil and gas industry is seen as key to achieving the ambitions of the Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Forum (ACSEF), of which the City Council is a main partner.
The ACSEF’s vision is to promote the local area’s role “as a major centre in the world knowledge and Energy economies”.
Shell’s plans would also go a long way towards meeting the manifesto pledges of Aberdeen City Council’s ruling Lib Dem-Tory administration, by continuing to implement the diversification strategy, working to establish Aberdeen as World Energy Capital and helping to develop a long-term strategy to support the oil and gas industry in Aberdeen while promoting the Renewable Energy Industry.
Today’s announcement follows BP’s plans to build major new headquarters at Dyce, underlining the importance of the North-east’s highly skilled workforce to the international energy industry.
Aberdeen City Council leads ongoing work to attract and retain skilled workers in order to address identified skills shortages being experienced by local employers, including recruitment drives in Poland, Czech Republic and other parts of Europe.
Councillor Kate Dean, Leader of the Council, said: “Today’s announcement by Shell will help to ensure that Aberdeen remains an attractive location for international energy business, while ensuring we can help to attract the best people with the key skills that are needed to keep the oil and gas industry buoyant.
“The creation of new jobs – including in construction – would of course provide a boost for the area’s general prosperity but it would also greatly enhance the opportunities for increased business creation and development.
“This in turn would help to underpin the further growth of our successful retail, service and leisure sectors, which are so important to ensuring that the City and Shire is seen as an attractive place to live and work.”
The plans would also help to underpin the City’s ambitions for the sustainable regeneration of Torry.
For more information on the Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Forum (ACSEF) log on to http://www.local-economic-forum.com/ie/index.asp
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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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