Nick Mathiason
Sunday July 30, 2006
The Shell-owned consortium behind the $20bn oil and gas project in Sakhalin off the east coast of Russia is seeking UK taxpayers’ money to help pay for the scheme, even though it is based in the tax haven of Bermuda.
Campaigners are demanding the Export Credits Guarantee Department deny funds to Sakhalin Energy. James Leaton of WWF said: ‘ECGD was set up to promote UK exports. Less than 5 per cent of the project is British and it is already 75 per cent complete. It is unacceptable that taxpayers’ money is being spent to endorse projects based in a tax haven that contribute to climate change.’
The ECGD is evaluating whether to issue credit guarantees to Sakhalin that could total $1bn. Shell said: ‘UK contractors will benefit from multi-million pound contracts on this project.’
Sakhalin-2, the world’s most expensive infrastructure project, will allow gas to be frozen and sent on ships to south-east Asia and beyond. It has doubled its original $10bn budget and is vital to Shell’s future. Gazprom is negotiating for a stake in the scheme, which would dilute Shell’s share. Shell is desperately seeking finance around the world for the project.
Shell last week reported record profits on revenues of $83.1bn.
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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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