By GREG WALTERS
September 4, 2006
MOSCOW — Russian authorities may order the Sakhalin Energy international energy consortium to stop pumping oil if it doesn’t correct environmental violations registered over the past year.
Russian officials said they are still several steps away from actually halting production at the venture. Analysts called the possible move an attempt to increase pressure on Royal Dutch Shell PLC, which is at loggerheads with Russian state-owned natural-gas concern OAO Gazprom over an asset swap involving Sakhalin Energy. Shell owns 55% of the consortium, while Japan’s Mitsui & Co. Ltd. holds a 25% stake and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp., holds 20%.
Last year, Shell announced a preliminary swap deal to give Gazprom as much as 25% in Sakhalin Energy in exchange for a 50% interest in Gazprom’s massive Zapolyarnoye gas field in northern Russia.
But only days later, Shell said it expected costs to double at the Sakhalin Energy project to $20 billion, prompting Gazprom to say it would reassess the planned swap. Shell said it is still in talks on the exchange.
Gazprom said it had nothing to do with the decision-making process of the Ministry of Natural Resources.
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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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