September 27, 2006
Moscow is registering irritation that its putative environmental concern over a massive foreign-owned oil project is seen as a veil for nationalization.
The government’s Natural Resources Ministry recently pulled an environmental permit of the Sakhalin-2 petroleum project, which is led by Royal Dutch Shell PLC. That move followed an unsuccessful effort by Kremlin-controlled OAO Gazprom to gain a 25-percent stake in the lucrative project.
Since then Western governments, primarily Japanese and European, have blasted Moscow and warned that such tactics sour Russia’s foreign investment climate.
In response, the deputy head of the Natural Resources Ministry’s inspectorate denied that President Vladimir Putin’s administration was deliberately fabricating environmental issues to pave the way for more nationalization, the Guardian said Wednesday.
There is nothing about business or political interests here. There are only ecological problems on Sakhalin, Oleg Mitvol said.
A day before Mitvol’s comments, ministry officials said their monthlong inquiry into Sakhalin-2 could result in Shell and its foreign partners having to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in improvements. Failure to make those improvements could result in legal problems, the ministry warned.
Copyright 2006 by United Press International
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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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