Oct. 4, 2006, 5:13AM
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MOSCOW — The Kremlin turned up the pressure on a giant Shell-lead energy project Wednesday after a top economic adviser to the president said Russia would never accept a doubling of its costs, the Interfax news agency reported.
“It was clear that the Russian side would never accept this,” Arkady Dvorkovich was quoted as saying. Shell enraged the Kremlin last year when it announced that its costs at the giant Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas project would double to US$20 billion (euro15.75 billion).
Under an agreement signed in the 1990s, Russia will only receive a share of the oil once costs have been covered. Analysts have said a recent decision to pull a key environmental permit at Sakhalin-2 by Russia’s Natural Resources Minister is aimed at allowing the Kremlin to see profits from the development before costs have been covered, as well as securing better terms for state gas monopoly OAO Gazprom, which is seeking to join the project.
The decision has shocked investors and prompted criticism from western governments.
Britain’s ambassador to Russia, Tony Brenton, on Wednesday warned that the current situation had harmed Russia’s reputation as a “business partner and a supplier of energy resources” and defended Shell’s environmental record at the project, according to Interfax.
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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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