Published: Jul 28, 2006
THE High Court has reserved judgment in a multi-million claim for damages by a county council against energy giant Shell.
The legal action followed the leakage of petroleum products from a Shell petrol station which halted construction of new civic offices in Trim, Co Meath.
Damages estimated at between 5m-6m are being sought by the Meath Co Council after a hydrocarbon discharge in 2001 from a petrol station owned by Irish Shell Ltd at Watergate Street, Trim, contaminated an adjoining site previously used as a car park for the local swimming pool.
The petrol leak was detected in January 2001 after a sheen from hydrocarbons was observed in the nearby River Boyne.
The council is seeking damages for consequential losses and costs incurred because the contractor they employed to build the civic offices has not been able to do any work since April 2001.
Earlier in the hearing, Mr Justice Vivian Lavan ruled that correspondence exchanged between the parties constituted an agreement by Shell that it (a) accepted responsibility for the pollution; (b) would remedy what Shell described as the “unfortunate event” and pay all costs and damages to the council to include all consequential losses.
The council want Shell to clean up the site to a level agreed by the parties. But while Shell admits responsibility for contamination, does not accept responsibility for any losses arising from the council’s decision to enter into a contract to construct the offices.
Ann O’Loughlin
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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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