By LINDA SASLOW
Published: December 3, 2006
Suffolk County is raising objections to Broadwater Energy’s application for an easement on state-owned land under Long Island Sound for a proposed floating gas plant and connecting pipeline.
County Executive Steve Levy, an opponent of the project, said the easement, if granted, would mean the loss of 950 underwater acres to Broadwater, a partnership of the Shell Oil Company and the TransCanada Corporation. He said the easement would add to a proposed 1,722-acre security zone in surface waters around the plant and along routes used by tankers delivering liquefied natural gas.
“Here we have a private entity saying, ‘Give us 950 acres of the precious Long Island Sound so we can generate a profit,’ ” Mr. Levy said. “We think it is unwarranted.” He said the gas was unneeded.
In objections filed with the New York State Office of General Services on Nov. 15, the county argued that the application was premature because Broadwater lacked approval for the plant from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The county also said the easement would violate a county law enacted earlier this year barring such plants from the Sound.
John Hritcko Jr., Broadwater’s senior vice president, said that the application had been filed in a timely manner and that the state routinely granted easements for gas pipelines and electric cables. “This is consistent with all other pipelines and cables that cross the Sound,” he said.
The easement would cover the floor of the Sound along the 22-mile route of the proposed pipeline. Thomas A. Pohl, a lawyer in the Office of General Services in Albany, said that three Long Island towns, Brookhaven, Smithtown and Huntington, and the Connecticut attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, had also filed objections to the easement. Mr. Pohl said the office had not begun its reviews.
JOHN RATHER
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.
