A joint venture of Shell Oil and Saudi Refining Inc. was fined $350,000 for petroleum storage violations at two dozen New York Shell stations, state environmental officials said Friday. Houston-based Motiva Enterprises will also pay for a wider audit to check compliance at 88 more stations, including 40 on Long Island.
Among those to be inspected are 17 in Nassau and 23 in Suffolk with Motiva-owned storage equipment. The audit will check for aging storage tanks that could allow fuel to contaminate soil and groundwater.
Motiva Enterprises, which refines and markets fuel at nearly 8,000 Shell stations in the United States, agreed to the penalty under the terms of a consent order with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
The firm will hire an independent consultant to conduct the investigation and pay for cleanup of any spills it uncovers.
The company must also set aside $200,000 for a project with a “positive environmental impact” in the communities where the violations occurred, DEC officials said.
The agreement announced Friday stemmed from a DEC investigation that uncovered older technology – such as single-walled storage tanks – and fuel leaks from degraded equipment at 24 stations in New York, Long Island and the Lower Hudson Valley.
Motiva is removing and, in some cases, replacing those tanks with double-walled storage equipment under an earlier consent order, said DEC spokeswoman Maureen Wren.
“Because all these other Shell facilities are likely in similar condition because of age, Motiva came to DEC and said maybe we should look at these others as well,” Wren said.
Motiva spokeswoman Robin Lebovitz said in a statement the company had responded to the DEC’s concerns about steel-lined underground tank and “proactively initiated an audit and remediation process of all stations.”
The company will also provide assistance to retail stations’ operators to help them maintain better compliance in the future, she said.
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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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