By Upstream staff
The European Commission said today that it took “very seriously” a decision by Russia to revoke environmental approvals for the $20 billion Sakhalin 2 oil and gas project led by Shell.
“I take this announcement very seriously indeed,” Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said in a statement, adding that Shell should be given a chance to respond to any concerns of Moscow about the project off Russia’s Pacific Coast.
“I believe that they should be clearly and unequivocally identified by the Russian authorities and Shell must be given an appropriate time to resolve them according to defined and clear criteria, set out in advance,” Piebalgs said.
Energy ties between the EU and Russia were based on “mutual respect of transparency, predictability and non-discrimination” which applied “as much to the ability of EU companies to invest in Russia as to the right of Russian companies to sell gas and oil freely at both upstream and downstream levels in the EU”.
Piebalgs also said he would write soon to Russia’s energy minister on this issue.
Russia and the European Union have had an edgy energy relationship in 2006, sparked by a January gas pricing dispute between Ukraine and Moscow that briefly disrupted supplies to Europe.
Since then the 25-nation bloc and the former Soviet giant have sought to strengthen energy ties, but the two sides have failed to see eye to eye on what constitutes equal access to each other’s markets – a goal they both profess to pursue.
Russia supplies about a quarter of the EU’s gas, and that figure is expected to rise in the coming years.
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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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