Crude-oil futures rose to a fresh five-week high of nearly $60 a barrel after Nigeria’s state oil company declared force majeure on crude cargoes as part of a government directive to cut output.
Here is Friday’s roundup of oil and energy news:
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CARBON CONTEST: Sir Richard Branson announced a $25 million prize for the scientist who comes up with a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, comparing it to the 17th-century quest to revolutionize navigation by determining longitude. The Virgin Group chairman was joined by former Vice President Al Gore and other leading environmentalists as he announced the challenge to find the world’s first viable design to capture and remove carbon dioxide from the air.
•Carbon Crimes: Companies and individuals found responsible for environmental disasters should face criminal charges, the European Union’s executive said in proposing a measure that would punish serious offenses across the 27-nation bloc with up to five years in prison or a $975,000 fine.
&Slow Going: But it could be “many months, if not years,” before any of the European Commission’s proposals to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions make it to law books, Quentin Peel writes in the Financial Times.
•Buying on the Cold: It’s a good thing not many commodities traders live in Oswego County, New York, which is currently under about six feet of snow, or who knows how high oil prices would be, says MarketBeat.
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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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