Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent
Published: Feb 03, 2007
Mayo County Council says that it is committed to implementing recommendations made by Government mediator Peter Cassells on the Corrib gas project in spite of its failure this week to strengthen community representation on a local monitoring group.
A meeting hosted by the local authority and the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources in Glenamoy to elect new community representatives ended in disarray, amid heated criticism of the procedures adopted.
The meeting was convened on foot of one of the Cassells recommendations last year in relation to strengthening community participation.
While Minister for the Marine Noel Dempsey has promised to transfer responsibility for national monitoring of the project to the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER), local monitoring is by way of a project monitoring committee (PMC) administered by Mayo County Council and a separate environmental monitoring group (EMG) administered by the department. The PMC’s focus is the gas terminal and the peat haulage route and deposition site for peat removed from Bellanaboy, while the EMG is concerned with the high-pressure pipeline, its landfall and near-shore work. The PMC comprises representatives of Shell and seven State agencies and has two community representatives – with only one currently serving.
The local authority and department plan is to extend community representation on both groups to three participants, elected from groups registered with the local authority’s community forum. However, Mary Corduff, of the Shell to Sea campaign, criticised the nomination procedures. “It is not democratic, but is intended to give that illusion,” she said.
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.
