11/8/2007 1:12:46 PM GMT
Filed from Aberdeen
UK: Shell’s staffing levels are too low to ensure safety on oil rigs, a probe into the Dutch major’s UK North Sea operations has found.
Britain’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has upheld some of the complaints made by members of the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC) and Unite Amicus unions. Union members also raised the issue of workloads and management attitudes.
HSE went offshore to witness the company’s operations for itself and determined that some of the “complex complaints” were justified as procedures were not working as well as they should have been. HSE said Shell had taken action to address the matters in some instances.
On the back of the result, Graham Tran, of the Unite Amicus union, said that if Shell wanted to leave UK waters “then good riddance,” while Jake Molloy, the general secretary of the OILC, said, Shell appears “to be acting like some dodgy second-hand car dealers” in their bids to sell their North Sea facilities.
The HSE now has upheld all but one of the unions’ complaints and has ruled staff shortages mean that the company could not operate the vital permit to work system efficiently.
Shell says they are co-operating fully with the HSE in addressing any concerns the agency may have.
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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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