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Royal Dutch Shell has appealed a Nigerian court order requiring it hand over the site of a key base in the oil-rich but impoverished Niger Delta. A high court in Rivers State ruled in July that the site of the Bonny lifting terminal belonged to the local community, not the oil multinational. Local residents accused Shell of getting the certificate of ownership from the state government illegally. But a BBC correspondent in Nigeria says the order is unlikely to be enforced. A Shell spokeswoman refused to comment except to confirm that the company was appealing the decision. The Bonny terminal was rented by Shell from the local population in 1958, but at some point in the more recent past the company got hold of a certificate saying they owned the land, news agency AFP reported community leaders as telling the court. The terminal is Africa’s largest, with the capacity to dock several tankers at once. It is unlikely the government will enforce the order, the BBC’s Alex Last in Lagos says. Nigeria’s oil production has been cut by more than 20% partly because of unrest in the region over the past few years. Militants have been attacking oil installations saying they are fighting for greater control over oil wealth for the local communities. But are accused of making money from criminal rackets and trade in stolen oil. |
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
