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Wednesday 30 May 2007
“Government isn’t doing industry any favours by appearing to be so much in favour of development,” Severson-Baker said. “Government is partly to blame for industry’s poor image because they aren’t leading on those issues either.”
Rather than offer creative solutions to tough issues, Severson-Baker complained that industry captains are “very quick to threaten to leave” the country when confronted with sensitive topics.
When pressed to acknowledge one positive industry contribution, Severson-Baker pointed to Shell Canada’s efforts to reduce emissions from its oilsands operations.
But Sendall argued the petroleum industry provides skilled jobs for hundreds of thousands of people, underpinning the country’s economic prosperity.
Solutions to issues like climate change will be found through innovation and the development of new technology, she said.
According to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Canadian oil and gas companies spent about $45 billion in 2005, three times the $16 billion spent in 1998.
In that time, the oil and gas industry contributed an estimated $27 billion to government revenues in the form of royalty payments, bonus payments and income taxes.
According to the association, oil and natural gas accounted for about 81 per cent of Canada’s merchandise trade balance in 2005.
Pierre Alvarez, association president, said the rapid pace of growth over the past decade has inevitably resulted in more potential for conflict.
“It’s one of the challenges of being a big industry,” said Alvarez. “When you are as big in the economy as we are now, you can’t hide.”
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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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