The Associated Press
Wednesday 1 November 2006
Russia’s natural resources minister said Wednesday that a final decision on whether to allow a Shell-led consortium to continue working at an oil and liquefied natural gas project on the Far Eastern island of Sakhalin would be made in late November.
Last month, Yuri Trutnev threatened to revoke a key permit that would effectively halt work at the US$22 billion (€17.3 billion) project over environmental concerns.
“A decision will be taken when the comprehensive check is completed. I think this will be the third week of November,” he said.
Trutnev also said Wednesday that he had given the consortium’s operator, Sakhalin Energy, an extra week to provide its plan for rectifying the ecological violations, which include illegal logging and silting rivers. “Out of courtesy we are prepared to wait another week,” until next Thursday, he said.
Trutnev made a fleeting tour to the island last week, during which he slammed the project’s “gross violations” of environmental legislation.
Analysts have said that the checks are a form of pressure aimed at reshaping the deal in the Kremlin’s favor and winning a role for state gas monopoly Gazprom in the project.
Shell enraged the government last year when it announced the cost of the project had doubled. That would massively delay the point at which Russia shares profits from the deal, which was signed back in the 1990s.
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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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