Wed Sep 6, 2006 7:08 PM EDT
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell
Shell unit SURE Northern Energy said it was the successful bidder for five parcels of land in the latest Alberta government sale. The acreage is adjacent to 10 parcels the company picked up in February for a record C$465 million.
It acquired another parcel in July for C$5.1 million through a land agent, the company said.
The Shell unit has already started drilling on its lands to gauge how an oil sands project may be structured, it said.
SURE Northern anonymously made its first acquisition at the highest price that bare land in the oil-rich province had ever attracted, creating grist for the rumor mill in the Canadian oil patch.
It came as a surprise when Royal Dutch Shell announced it was the buyer in March because Shell’s 78-percent-owned subsidiary, Shell Canada Ltd.
Wholly owned unit Shell EP Americas has said the new business will not compete with Shell Canada, which is planning an expansion of its oil sands mining venture that may cost as much as C$12.8 billion.
“We believe there is potential in these parcels that complements and strengthens the position we established earlier this year,” SURE Northern President Steve Crane said in a statement.
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
