Peak warning: Shell chief executive Jeroen van der Veer says production of easily-accessible oil will begin to decline within 10 years
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By Upstream staff
Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell, has said he expected exploitation of the earth’s easily accessible oil and gas reserves to peak within 10 years.
“It’s becoming technologically expensive, capital intensive and lead times are growing longer,” Van der Veer told an energy supply scenario seminar at the US think tank Centre for Strategic International Studies, Thomson Financial.
Van der Veer said the production peak would reflect not only the maturing of existing reserves but also increasing difficulty in gaining access to the remain large reserves in places such as Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela.
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02 April 2008 05:57 GMT | last updated: 02 April 2008 05:57 GMT
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.
