UPDATE 1-Shell scraps plans for new Canadian refinery
CALGARY, Alberta, July 8 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L:Quote, Profile, Research) has canceled plans to build a new multibillion-dollar refinery near Sarnia, Ontario, due to poor market conditions and surging costs, the oil major said on Tuesday.
Shell had been studying the feasibility of a new plant in St. Clair Township over the past two years that would process tar-like crude from its Alberta oil sands operations.
The refinery in southwestern Ontario was to have processed 150,000 to 200,000 barrels a day.
“This decision is a very difficult one for Shell and it is only taken after careful consideration,” Amrik Ahluwalia, Shell’s general manager of manufacturing expansion, said in a statement on Shell’s Canadian website.
The company had studied the environmental impact and held consultations with residents in the area.
Surging costs and a stretched labor force have hit projects throughout Canada’s oil and gas industry, forcing some oil sands and upgrading projects to be delayed in recent months.
The head of Shell’s Canadian operations said on Tuesday the company was considering building upgrading capacity into two U.S. refineries rather than going ahead with a full, C$27 billion ($26 billion) expansion of its Alberta upgrading complex near Edmonton.
Shell still runs a 72,000 barrel a day refinery at Sarnia. (Reporting by Jeffrey Jones; editing by Rob Wilson)
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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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