12:15, Mar 12 2008
By Chris Smith, Ellesmere Port Pioneer
AN OIL refinery has been fined £266,681 after highly-flammable and toxic gas escaped through a corroded pipe at the Ellesmere Port plant.
Shell UK had a “narrow escape” after 20 tonnes of isobutane, mixed with 150 kg of hydrogen fluoride, escaped into the atmosphere from the HF Alkylation plant at their Stanlow Manufacturing Complex.
The gas dispersed without exploding, and no-one was hurt as a result.
But the Health and Safety Executive says that if the gas had escaped from a different part of the same pipe, it could have ignited.
Shell UK Oil Products Limited had previously pleaded guilty to failing to comply with the duty imposed by Regulation 4 of the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999 to take all measures necessary to prevent major accidents, by its failure to contain a flammable toxic gas.
At Warrington Crown Court on Wednesday morning, the company was fined £266,681 and told to pay £37,131.62 in costs. The incident happened on May 29, 2003.
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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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