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Published: Apr 21, 2007
The military retook a control station on a pipeline that sends natural gas to Argentina and were slowly restoring operations after days of violent protests at gas installations in southern Bolivia, the government said late Friday.
Juan Ramon Quintana, chief of staff for President Evo Morales, told a news conference that shipments of gas to Argentina would be “normalized” Saturday.
Defense Minister Walker San Miguel said troops and police were guarding all energy instalations in southern Bolivia following disturbances that killed at least one person and wounded dozens more amid a provincial dispute over ownership of a rich gas deposit. There were no reports of violence in Friday’s retaking of the control station.
Hours earlier the government had announced it would temporarily reduce its natural gas exports to Argentina by about 75 percent and slightly decrease shipments to Brazil due to the protests, at an estimated loss of US$1 million (A730,000) per day.
But San Miguel said late Friday that operations would be restored in the coming hours.
On Wednesday, more than 1,000 protesters seized the Yacuiba pipeline station run by Transredes, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell. Protesters broke windows, set fire to two company cars, and threatened to shut off gas deliveries to Argentina.
Two neighboring provinces within Bolivia’s gas-rich southern state of Tarija dispute ownership of the Margarita field, still in its exploration and development stage but potentially one of the country’s largest.
The field straddles the poorly defined boundary between the O’Connor and Gran Chaco provinces, and each is demanding a larger share of the field’s eventual royalties.
The Spanish-Argentine company Repsol YPF holds a majority stake in the Margarita field, with the British company BG Group and Argentine company Pan American Energy each owning a minority interest.
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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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