By: Martin Flanagan
Published: Oct 26, 2006
RUSSIA has prolonged an environmental inspection of Royal Dutch Shell’s dollars 22 billion Sakhalin oil and gas project and may prosecute the scheme, a minister said yesterday.
Yuri Trutnev, Russian’s natural resources minister, told a meeting of environmental inspectors and officials from Sakhalin Energy: “The breaches at Sakhalin-2 fall under five articles of the criminal code.
“This falls under criminal law and we think it’s necessary to apply it. All the relevant documents should be sent to the prosecutor general within two weeks.”
Trutnev cited illegal tree felling as among the violations.
The comments were seen as sharply ratcheting up of the tension between the Russian authorities and the British/Dutch oil giant, and of the wider pressure on many foreign energy operators in Russia.
Many analysts believe efforts to renegotiate oil contracts in that country alongside allegations of environmental damage are really about the government seeking more control of the country’s multi-billion dollar oil industry.
On Tuesday, BP boss Lord Browne deflected questions about pressures foreign companies are facing in Russia.
He said: “There has been much speculation covering our Russian activities, but in reality there has been no change. Our relationships with the government and our partners [in the TNK-BP joint venture in the country] remain strong.”
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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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