Terry Macalister
Tuesday June 26, 2007
The major oil companies have been trumpeting their involvement in biofuels while warning that it will not be possible to meet rising world energy demand without fossil fuels well into the middle of this century.
BP will outline its expansion plans in the biofuels sector today while Shell described yesterday the work it has been doing on more “sustainable” sources such as wood chips and animal waste.
Environmentalists and human rights activists have pointed to the dangers of crops being grown for fuel in sensitive areas or competing against crops being grown for food. Shell, which claims to be the biggest marketer and distributor of biofuels in the world, appears to accept that sugar cane, palm oil and other such products cannot be sustainable in the long-term as a car fuel.
Changes next week to the tax levied on makers of biofuels in Britain could lead to an explosion of mini-producers and the development of a significant “home-brew” market, some suppliers have argued.
But Shell also warned yesterday that the world needed a “reality check” if it thought it could meet rising demand from developing countries with renewables.
Shell’s chief executive, Jeroen van der Veer, said that even with major technological breakthroughs, renewables could account for only 30% of energy supply by the middle of the century. “Contrary to public perceptions, renewable energy is not the silver bullet that will soon solve all our problems,” he wrote in a letter to the Times.
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2111330,00.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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