By Angela Macdonald-Smith
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europes biggest oil company, will become a founding member of Australias A$100 million ($64 million) carbon capture and storage institute aimed at speeding low-emissions power output.
Shell will actively participate in the institutes programs and services, the company said today in an e-mailed statement, without elaborating. The work should help cut the cost of the expensive carbon capture and storage, or CCS, technology in the period through to 2020 when the first projects will be developed, it said.
Australias government in September said it will set up the institute, aimed at fast-tracking and helping finance coal-fired generation projects that use carbon capture and storage technology to prolong the use of the fuel while reducing greenhouse pollution. Shell estimates the technology could cut global carbon dioxide emissions by more than a third by 2050.
A safe and cost-effective way to capture and store CO2 from coal, oil and natural gas is imperative if we are going to meet the challenge of increase energy demand and the need to tackle climate change, Graham Sweeney, Shells executive vice president of future fuels and CO2, said in the statement.
Governments and energy companies need to step up efforts to develop CCS projects to have a chance of meeting emissions reductions targets, Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency, said yesterday. Without CCS projects, emissions reductions in nations such as China and India are impossible, he said in an interview on Australias Gold Coast.
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Last Updated: November 25, 2008 06:30 EST
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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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