Tim Webb
Sunday October 14, 2007
Centrica is considering calling for a judicial review to overturn a government decision which excludes most energy companies from the contest to build the world’s first green coal plant.
John Hutton, the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (Berr), last week barred most companies’ existing designs by unexpectedly favouring an alternative clean coal technology.
Shell, Scottish and Southern Energy, Conoco-Philips and Marathon Oil, plus Centrica, have spent almost £100m developing the now redundant plans.
This weekend, Centrica’s chief executive Sam Laidlaw is writing a formal letter of complaint to Hutton. It is understood Laidlaw will warn that as a result of last week’s announcement, business confidence in investing in such expensive green technologies has been ‘profoundly shaken’.
Laidlaw could take the unprecedented step of leading industry calls for a judicial review to overturn the decision, according to industry sources.
Next month, the government will invite bids from companies to build the estimated £1bn pilot carbon capture and storage (CCS) coal plant in the UK.
Coal plants which use CCS cut carbon emissions by up to 90 per cent, as the carbon dioxide released when the coal is burnt is stored underground, rather than released into the atmosphere.
There are two main technologies: ‘post-combustion’, which removes carbon after coal is burnt, and ‘pre-combustion’. Last week, the government said it would only accept ‘post-combustion’ plans as the technology could be ‘retro-fitted’ to existing dirty coal plants.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,,2190587,00.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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