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Canada’s oil sands, a vast potential oil source that critics say comes at a big environmental cost, will be on the agenda when Barack Obama visits Canada on his first foreign trip as US president, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.
Harper told a Calgary radio station that he has been in touch with officials from Obama’s administration even as the president-elect prepares for his inauguration next Tuesday.
In the interview with CHQR, Harper said environmental concerns and the need for clean, secure energy will be top priorities when Obama visits.
“We will be making the point … of saying we want to work together with the US on environmental and energy issues,” he said, according to a Reuters report.
“To be frank on the oil sands, we’ve got to do a better job environmentally. We hear a lot of pressure on that,” Harper said. “At the same time, the development of these things is pretty important, in our judgment, to North American energy security.”
No date has been set for Obama’s visit to Canada.
Tar deposits in Canada’s Alberta province represent the biggest oil reserves outside of Saudi Arabia.
Oil sands production averaged 1.25 million barrels per day in 2006. Canada accounts for about 20% of US imports of crude and oil products.
Critics point to the large amount of natural gas burned to process the sands into synthetic oil, resulting in major greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the production of waste water and the destruction of boreal forests that are habitats for migrating birds.
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.
