By Torrey Clark
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) — Oleg Mitvol, the Russian official who is pushing to revoke Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s environmental permit for its Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project, will inspect the project this week for environmental damage.
Mitvol, the deputy head of the Natural Resources Ministry’s environmental inspectorate, will tour the project’s overland pipeline construction site by helicopter and meet with officials from Shell’s project operator, Sakhalin Energy, the ministry said in an e-mail today.
Russia is stepping up pressure on projects run by Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Total SA under production-sharing accords, which grant the state a share of oil revenue after the companies recover costs. Shell announced a $10 billion cost increase in the project last year, one week after agreeing to an asset swap that would give state-controlled OAO Gazprom a 25 percent stake in the project. Russia has not yet approved the cost increase.
The Natural Resources Ministry last week signed off on an order to revoke the environmental approval for the part of Shell’s Sakhalin-2 project that is now under construction, which includes oil and gas pipelines that cross Sakhalin Island. The ministry is waiting for the federal industrial safety service, Rostekhnadzor, to approve the order before it takes legal effect.
Mitvol will visit Sakhalin Island from Sept. 27 to Sept. 30. Mitvol will be inspecting the Sakhalin sites with representatives of environmental organizations and possibly officials from the British, German, Japanese, U.S., Dutch and South Korean embassies, the ministry said.
The head of Rostekhnadzor, Konstantin Pulikovsky, will travel to Sakhalin and the Far East for meetings with the heads of local divisions to discuss their inspections of sites in the region, the service said in an e-mail today. Pulikovsky, who used to be President Vladimir Putin’s representative in the Far East, will also attend an oil and gas conference on Sakhalin Island.
To contact the reporter on this story: Torrey Clark in Moscow at [email protected]
Last Updated: September 25, 2006 09:15 EDT
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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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