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Feb. 16, 2009, 10:40PM
LABOR
Workers approve job bid changes
Workers at the Shell Deer Park refinery and chemical plant voted over the weekend to ratify a local contract that changes the way jobs are bid.
Earlier this month, during national negotiations, Shell agreed to pay employees a 3??percent raise for each year of the three-year contract and a $2,500 lump sum bonus.
On the local level, Shell will change the job bidding procedure so seniority doesnt play as much of a role, said Alan Barnes, treasurer of the United Steelworkers Union Local 13-1 in Pasadena, which represents the 900 workers.
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MATT NAGER Bloomberg NewsRex Tillerson, chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp.
ENERGY
Exxon Mobil says reserves are up
Exxon Mobil Corp. said Monday that proven reserves rose 0.4 percent last year to the equivalent of 22.8 billion barrels of oil as it added crude in Canada, Nigeria and the U.S.
Exxon Mobil said it added 1.5 billion oil-equivalent barrels to its proved reserves in 2008, enough to sustain current production levels for 15.3 years. Reserve additions, excluding asset sales, replaced 110 percent of production, Irving-based Exxon Mobil said Monday.
Last year Exxon Mobil said it replaced 76 percent of the oil and natural gas pumped from its wells by the end of 2007.
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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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