GENEVA (Thomson Financial) – An independent scientific panel has expressed concern over a decision by oil and gas companies developing Russia’s Sakhalin II offshore fields to ignore noise limits aimed at preserving whales, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) said.
The international panel set up by the IUCN said the decision by the Gazprom led consortium including Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell, Japan’s Mitsui and Mitsubishi to reject construction noise criteria on technical grounds could jeopardise western grey whales.
‘We are especially concerned that the company appears to have decided not to include thresholds for prolonged exposure to lower noise levels,’ the Western Grey Whale Advisory Panel said in a statement released by the nature conservation agency.
‘Without more rigorous noise management and mitigation efforts on the part of Sakhalin Energy and other companies operating in the region, their activities may have significant long-term effects on grey whales attempting to feed in this area,’ it added.
The panel made the recommendation to set noise limits in April.
Late last year, authorities threatened the then Shell-led consortium with possible criminal prosecutions and withdrew construction licences over environmental violations in the giant oil and gas project off Sakhalin island in Russia’s Far East.
Energy analysts had widely believed the environmental violations uncovered by Russian officials in Sakhalin were part of an attempt to seize control of the foreign-owned project.
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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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