By Fred Pals
Sept. 20 (Bloomberg) — The Dutch Foreign Ministry wants an explanation from the Russian government for the cancellation of Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s permit for the $20 billion Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project.
Russia’s industrial safety inspectorate is expected to authorize by tomorrow a Natural Resources Ministry order canceling a key Sakhalin-2 operating permit on environmental damage grounds. The move underscores Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tightening grip on the nation’s energy industry.
“We want to know what are the reasons for the apparent cancellation,” Gijs Gerlag, a Foreign Ministry spokesman for European affairs, said by phone today from The Hague. “The stakes are high with this project,” he said. Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Bot will contact his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, as soon as possible, Gerlag added.
Shell, based in The Hague, owns 55 percent of the Sakhalin-2 project, the largest foreign investment in Russia. The other 45 percent is owned by Mitsubishi Corp. and Mitsui & Co., Japan’s two biggest trading companies.
Shell’s Sakhalin-2 venture has failed to resolve half of its 60 environmental breaches, Alexander Losyukov, Russia’s ambassador to Japan told reporters in Tokyo today. Still, Russia’s government won’t cancel the project as the facility is “vital” for the country’s oil and gas exports for the next 15 years, he said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Fred Pals in Amsterdam at [email protected]
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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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