Shell, Army OK $35M arsenal-pollution settlement
Colorado’s quarter century-long legal tussle over groundwater pollution at Rocky Mountain Arsenal ended today with the announcement of a $35 million settlement.
Shell Oil and the U.S. Army which produced all manner of nasty chemicals from 1942 until 1982 at the arsenal, northeast of downtown Denver have agreed to pay the state $35 million in damages for polluting groundwater at the arsenal, state Attorney General John Suthers said today.
The amount is the largest environmental settlement in the state’s history, and it comes in addition to work the two organizations already are doing to clean up the groundwater and other pollution left over at the arsenal.
“The settlement was 25 years in the making, but we believe
it was very much worth the wait,” said Gov. Bill Ritter at a news conference announcing the agreement.Money from the settlement will go to a variety of open-space projects. Part of the settlement will be paid with a land donation to Commerce City, which surrounds the arsenal on three sides. It will use the donated land as a gateway to a network of trails and greenbelts that link to the arsenal, known as the Northeast Greenway Corridor.
As the arsenal has been cleaned up, much of it has been turned into a wildlife refuge.
“The money is nice,” Commerce City Mayor Paul Natale said of the settlement. “But I think for our city, it’s more that it’s over.”
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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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