12/13/2007, 12:21 pm
Spill timeline:
1988 — 100,000 gallons of gasoline spilled from Shell pipeline underground near Limestone School, some spreading for at least a mile underground by 2002.
Feb. 25 1994 — First story breaks of contamination of local well water with MTBE, a cancer-causing gasoline additive.
March 1994 — Shell assumes cost of providing pure water to residents of leak area.
June 30, 1997 — Lawsuit filed against Shell by the State of Illinois and County of Kankakee
July 15, 1997 — More contamination found in wells.
December 2001 — Lawsuit filed on behalf of Edith Quick. Becomes class action suit.
February 2002 — Toxins spread to Wiley Creek, 14 years after spill.
May 6, 2002 — Real estate appraiser estimates property values dropped 14-16 percent due to water contamination.
October 2005 — Attorney General Lisa Madigan sues Shell. Company pays about $400,000 for dumping contaminated soil from Limestone cleanup in Kane County.
Wednesday — Suit settled for $46 millions
Source: The Daily Journal archives
http://www.daily-journal.com/archives/dj/display.php?id=409768
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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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