13 November 2006
The Associated Press
A top Russian environmental official said Monday that proposals by a Shell-led energy consortium to resolve violations at its giant liquefied natural gas project in the Far East were insufficient, in the latest official criticism of the development.
Russia’s Natural Resources Ministry has accused the consortium of silting rivers and illegal logging in the course of its pipelaying work on the Pacific island of Sakhalin.
But observers suggest that the pressure is aimed at reconfiguring to the Kremlin’s benefit the terms of the deal under which Royal Dutch Shell PLC acquired the rights to develop the huge fields, as well as securing favorable terms for gas monopoly OAO Gazprom to enter the project.
“The measures proposed by Sakhalin Energy to compensate the damage done to the environment of Sakhalin do not take into account the whole scale of the violations,” Oleg Mitvol, the deputy head of the Ministry’s environmental watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, said in a statement.
Russian officials deny any hidden motivation for the environmental checks, which are due to conclude at the end of November. But they denounce as unfair the terms of 1990s deals — called production sharing agreements — that handed control of difficult energy projects to foreigners at a time of low oil prices.
Under the PSAs, foreign companies were allowed to recoup their costs before the state took a share of the profits.
Shell, which controls Sakhalin-2 with two Japanese companies, infuriated the Russian government when it said last year that the costs at the project would double to nearly US$22 billion (€17 billion).
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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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