MOSCOW, Russia (UPI) — Moscow appears ready to block a $20 billion natural gas project, led by the Royal Dutch Shell Group PLC, on the Pacific Ocean island of Sakhalin.
The formal reason is the Federal Service for the Supervision of Natural Resources, which says environmental recommendations of the project — the world`s largest integrated oil and natural gas venture — are ‘unfulfilled,’ the BBC reported Tuesday. The service wants the nation`s Natural Resources Ministry to repeal its approval of the project.
Non-Russian observers, as well as Russian journalists, say the objections are a Kremlin ploy to shoehorn state-owned OAO Gazprom into an ownership position of the venture, Voice of America said. Gazprom has been trying for some time to gain a slice of the project, known as Sakahlin-2.
RDS and its Japanese partners were preparing to begin natural gas shipments in 2008. The areas being developed hold reserves of about 1 billion barrels of oil and 500 billion cubic meters of natural gas, enough to meet 8 percent of the world`s LNG demand.
The project entails building two large offshore platforms and two 500-mile pipelines to carry production to onshore processing facilities.
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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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