Friday, 7 September 2007, 09:42 GMT 10:42 UK 
Royal Dutch Shell is to appeal against a shutdown order imposed on its refinery in Buenos Aires.
The Argentine government ordered the closure after finding the site lacked the proper environmental permits and impact studies.
Shell defended its environmental record but said it had begun the shutdown.
It also warned the move may lead to an energy shortage as the plant provides 15% of Argentina’s total refining capacity and 20% of its fuel supplies.
“All of our operations were and still are conducted according to the local legislation and stringent Shell standards,” the company said in a statement.
“Shell Argentina is analysing the documentation received and allegations made by the Environment Secretariat,” the statement added.
Latest spat
According to the government, the closure was ordered after inspections found pollution in soil samples.
Officials also accused the firm of taking water from the nearby River Plate estuary without a permit and having insufficient waste handling procedures.
The spat is the latest in a series of disputes between Shell and the Argentine government.
Two years ago President Nestor Kirchner encouraged citizens to buy “not even a can of oil” from Shell after it raised prices.
The Commerce Secretary Guillermo Morena recently fined Shell Argentina for failing to fully supply domestic fuel demands during a winter power shortage.
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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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