Thursday, December 20, 2007
Rio Blanco and Garfield County officials sounded positive — and skeptical — notes after a federal document identified some potential effects of oil shale development on public lands in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.
Rio Blanco County Commissioner Forrest Nelson said the Bureau of Land Management took the proper go-slow approach toward oil shale.
“We just don’t want any train wrecks,“ Nelson said. “Shell has run into a few problems at their test site up here, but I’m still optimistic something will happen, if oil prices stay where they’re at.”
Royal Dutch Shell is testing its in situ-recovery method in northwest Rio Blanco County.
Garfield County Commissioner Larry McCown said public lands might not be the site of the next oil shale project.
“What everybody always seems to forget is that all the major oil shale players the last time around still have sizable private holdings where they could start a project without the BLM,” said McCown, an oil shale worker during the last boom.
Any oil shale project in the county would be considered a major impact project, he said, and require several public hearings and “a lot of mitigation” to protect the environment.
Club 20 Executive Director Reeves Brown said while the BLM released the draft leasing document, Congress deleted funding in the 2008 appropriations bill to develop oil shale leasing regulations.
“I would think it’s got to be frustrating to the BLM to meet all their deadlines, while Congress plays politics with the money for the regulations,” Brown said. “I think the BLM did a very thorough process, with the local communities engaged to make sure local concerns were heard. I think there’s adequate protections for the environment, which are important as well.”
Mike McKibbin can be reached via email at [email protected].
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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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