THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
MARCH 24, 2009
By ALEX WILSON
MELBOURNE — BG Group PLC said Monday it has majority control of its takeover target Pure Energy Resources Ltd., upping its stake to 70% and extending the period of its offer.
The U.K. oil-and-gas company outbid rival bidder Arrow Energy Ltd. to win control of the coal seam gas producer with a 1.03 billion Australian dollars (US$706 million) all-cash offer pitched at A$8.25 a share.
BG said that as a result of it becoming a majority shareholder, its offer period has automatically been extended to April 6.
In a previous bid, BG had offered A$8 cash for each Pure share. Its latest A$8.25-a-share offer is conditional on it acquiring 90% of Pure, so shareholders are guaranteed at least A$8 a share.
Rival bidder Arrow Energy, which is Royal Dutch Shell‘s Australian joint-venture partner, holds about 20% of Pure and hasn’t said whether it will sell its stake into BG’s bid.
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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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