A WALL STREET JOURNAL NEWS ROUNDUP
September 28, 2006
Russia’s foreign minister said the Kremlin didn’t want to scrap the contract for a $20 billion Royal Dutch Shell PLC oil-and-gas venture and wasn’t seeking to push foreigners out of its energy sector.
But as Sergei Lavrov sought to soothe fears over the energy projects, Russia’s environmental watchdog issued another harsh statement, saying Shell’s project might have caused ecological damage of $50 billion. Sakhalin Energy — the consortium led by Shell — has suggested environmental groups are exaggerating the extent of the damage, and insists it is keeping to ecological-safety standards.
President Vladimir Putin, who has refrained so far from any direct comment on the project, which will ultimately supply customers in Japan and the U.S., urged the government to take measures against firms breaching license agreements.
Shell angered Moscow a year ago by doubling the estimated costs of its Sakhalin II oil-and-gas project, delivering a $10 billion bill, which, under Shell’s production-sharing agreement, is likely to land on the Kremlin’s doormat.
“Assertions about ‘revisions’ of [production-sharing agreements], and especially about squeezing foreigners out of the Russian energy sector, have absolutely no basis whatsoever,” the foreign ministry quoted Mr. Lavrov as telling a conference on Sakhalin, the Pacific island where the project is based. “Carrying out checks in no way means that licenses for developing deposits within the Sakhalin II project will be withdrawn.”
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.
