Headline: Offshore safety concerns raised
Unions want reassurances over worker safety
Two offshore unions have called on the Health and Safety Executive to investigate Shell’s operations in the North Sea.
Unite and the OILC believe the recent loss of key personnel from platforms Shell is selling means remaining staff may be unable to cope in an emergency.
The unions say they have had complaints from staff on five Shell installations.
Shell said the company had made sure the platforms had appropriately-trained safety workers.
The unions claim to have had concerns raised about the Cormorant Alpha, Dunlin Alpha, Tern, Eider and North Cormorant installations.
Asset sale
They said that since Shell announced the installations were for sale, communications between the company and the offshore workforce had deteriorated to the point it was impacting on operational safety.
Morale is also at an all-time low and the departure of several key personnel has created gaps in safety critical positions, according to the unions.
In June, Shell and Esso announced they were putting their joint interests in a number of North Sea oilfields up for sale.
Shell said “many” of its 400 onshore and offshore staff affected were expected to transfer to the new buyers.
A planned expansion of Shell’s Aberdeen operational headquarters was also abandoned as a result of the decision.
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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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