ASSOCIATED PRESS
September 5, 2006 4:00 p.m.; Page A10
Russia’s environmental regulator said it had filed suit seeking to revoke approval for a $20 billion international oil and gas project led by Royal Dutch Shell PLC on the Pacific island of Sakhalin.
The Federal Service for the Supervision of Natural Resources had signaled for several weeks that it planned to ask the Natural Resources Ministry to withdraw its approval for the Sakhalin II project in Russia’s Far East. The service said the suit was filed due to “unfulfilled recommendations, details of which are included in the state ecological review, and multiple digressions,” along with project operators’ failure to take necessary measures against erosion.
Observers have suggested that the ministry’s attention toward Sakhalin II is aimed at pressuring Shell to offer state-controlled gas monopoly OAO Gazprom better terms as it jostles to join what will be the world’s biggest liquefied natural-gas development. Gazprom is offering Shell access to the far northern Zapolyarnoye-Neocomian field, the world’s fifth-largest gas deposit, in exchange for a 25%-plus-one-share stake in Sakhalin II.
The project’s operator, Sakhalin Energy Investment Co., had no comment.
The move is the latest in an increasing number of complications for the project, whose major investors include Royal Dutch Shell and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp. Last week, Shell suspended pipe-laying work at a section of the Sakhalin project because of what it said was substandard construction work.
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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.
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