Saturday, April 04, 2009
Recent studies have created unnecessary hysteria by overstating likely water use associated with potential oil shale development, an energy company official says.
Tracy Boyd, a spokesman for Shell, told a Club 20 audience Saturday at Two Rivers Convention Center that water consumption is a serious issue that requires planning. But he said studies such as one released earlier this year by Western Resource Advocates do a pretty significant job of heightening anxiety for oil shale development, rather than help provide rational evaluation and planning.
Shell has been studying a possible method of oil shale development in Rio Blanco County.
Rob Harris of Western Resource Advocates, a Boulder-based environmental group, defended the conclusions of his groups research, saying the amount of water rights acquired by energy companies cant be ignored.
When we see a huge number of decreed water rights that are out there in the world, it makes us think, Well, gee, we have to plan for that, Harris said.
The groups analysis found that enough water rights have been acquired to enable energy companies to divert more than 7.2 million acre-feet a year and store more than 1.7 million acre feet for oil shale development in northwestern Colorado. Exercising those rights could dry up agricultural lands and harm the ability of Colorado communities to meet future water needs, the group said.
Dave Merritt, former chief engineer of the Colorado River Water Conservation District, said the study includes in its estimates past district rights that have been abandoned.
Harris acknowledged the report contains some errors but said the river district still has a lot of water rights that havent been abandoned. While the water rights could be used for other reasons, its reasonable to expect energy companies would be interested in them if full-scale oil shale development occurred, he said.
So I think theyre fair game, frankly, he 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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