Monday 28 January 2008
LONDON BP and Shell have been accused of using environmentally friendly initiatives as window dressing by Tony Juniper, the departing director of Friends of the Earth (Lewis Smith writes).
Mr Juniper said that the heads of the oil companies were hamstrung by the need to maximise dividends to investors, and that companies must have as much of an obligation to protect the environment as they have to maximise dividends.
He said that Lord Browne of Madingley, when chief executive, had promised to take BP into a new era of sustainability with its Beyond Petroleum campaign, which Mr Juniper helped to initiate, yet it soon became clear that oil and gas exploration would soak up the majority of investment.
Shell and BP also reduced their involvement with renewable energy such as wind farms and solar power. Richard Branson was criticised too for his promise to promote biofuels for trains and aircraft despite their restricted potential for helping to combat climate change.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3261417.ece
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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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