November 08, 2006
By David Robertson
WESTERN oil companies are monitoring the progress of a $50 billion (£26 billion) lawsuit against the Russian Federation as fears grow that the Kremlin is trying to gain more control over the country’s energy reserves, The Times has learnt.
TotalFinaElf, the world’s fourth-largest oil company, has sought advice from lawyers bringing the action on behalf of shareholders in Yukos, the Russian company that was bankrupted by the Kremlin. BP and Shell are also understood to be watching the case closely amid uncertainty about whether the Kremlin will honour exploration and development contracts signed with Western oil companies in the 1990s.
Shell has come under pressure from the Russian Government over its $20 billion Sakhalin 2 project. The Kremlin is believed to want to renegotiate the revenue-sharing agreement that exists with Shell and is thought to be using environmental legislation to put pressure on the company. If Shell were forced out of Russia, it could follow Yukos’s example and claim compensation for the loss of its investment.
The Yukos shareholders are using a multinational trade agreement called the Energy Charter Treaty to demand compensation for the bankruptcy of the company, which they claim was politically motivated. GML, which owns 51 per cent of Yukos, is seeking $50 billion in compensation.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9072-2442854,00.html
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.
