12/13/2007, 12:31 pm
Kankakee attorney Joseph Yurgine first sued Shell Oil in 2001 –initially as a personal injury case while representing Limestone Township resident Edith Quick. The lawsuit eventually grew into a class action on behalf of 1,500 property owners seeking compensation for the 1988 gasoline spill. Yurgine shared a few brief comments about the case following Tuesday’s historic $46 million settlement with the multinational energy giant.
Did you ever think you would get to this point?
“When we started out my goal was to get peace of mind and trust in your water. I don’t think that was ever negotiable in my mind.”
How did you come up with the $26 million figure to compensate residents?
“As a lawyer, you put out a lot of figures as to what the case is worth. We looked at a lot of things like the cost of pumping well water versus paying Aqua Illinois and linking a house to a water main.”
What do you have to say to the community leaders who accused you of trying to create a panic when this all started?
“I think they tried to put a lid on what happened. You should be asking the people out there (in Limestone Township) what they think.”
The $46 million settlement is the largest class action settlement in Kankakee County history. What do you have to say to that?
“People might say money can’t buy happiness. It is justice.”
Are you like the lawyer John Travolta portrayed in the movie “A Civil Action?”
“The lawyer in that case went bankrupt.”
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
