Nick Mathiason
Sunday April 29, 2007
Shell has become the dominant oil major in a controversial Alaskan project at the heart of legal challenges from environmentalists and indigenous peoples against George Bush.
The energy giant has paid the US government millions of dollars for licences in the Beaufort Sea off the northern coast of Alaska, just 10 miles from the protected Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.
Shell plans to drill this summer but campaigners say environmental impact assessments were rushed through without adequate consultation. They have launched a legal challenge to halt work.
It is the latest blow to a company which has, in recent years, been embroiled in a series of similar disputes in Sakhalin, off the east Russian coast, and in Nigeria.
Eric Jorgensen, managing attorney at Earth Justice said: ‘Shell has an obligation to ensure there’s sufficient information on which to base an assessment.’
Jeremy Leggett, a member of the government’s renewables advisory board, said: ‘Shell is planning oil production in the Arctic, from the Canadian tar sands, even from the oil shales. How are we going to turn problems around in 10 years, given Shell’s new emissions?’
Shell said it has acted according to frameworks prescribed by the US government. It added that the world will rely on hydrocarbons for many years and that it is a pioneer of alternative fuel technologies.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2067654,00.html
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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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