Bibi van der Zee
Tuesday October 17, 2006
Campaign of the week
The Shell sponsorship of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award – hosted by BBC Wildlife and the Natural History Museum (and handed out tomorrow night) – is causing a bit of a headache. According to Friends of the Earth, as one of the world’s major oil companies, Shell is a “wildlife destroyer” and “has played a significant part in contributing … to climate change. Shell’s sponsorship of the award completely undermines its value.”
In response to this, the director of the Natural History museum has told FoE: “It is not, of course, my role to defend the specific environmental impact of Shell.”
Shell obviously takes this all very seriously. The Shell Sustainability Report has come out every year since 1998, and covers everything from renewable energy strategies to disputes with local groups in Ireland over the Corrib development. “Climate change is the biggest problem,” it clearly states, making heaps of promises to invest in renewable energies and “make a positive contribution to conserving global biodiversity”.
But the reputation is proving hard to shake off, especially after a Nigerian judge handed Shell a bill for $1.5bn for pollution earlier this year (Shell is appealing), and a Russian government agent accused Shell of “destroying our nature” at the Sakhalin-2 project in eastern Russia: Shell’s environmental permit has been revoked by the Russian government, although the company denies mismanagement.
FoE is bringing some neighbours of Shell projects around the world to the UK to talk about their experience of Shell’s work. Maybe you’d like to let Shell know your views on these matters, too? foe.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1923971,00.html
This website and sisters royaldutchshellplc.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.
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.
