THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
APRIL 7, 2009, 8:29 P.M. ET
By RUSSELL GOLD
Two environmental groups say they will ask the Canadian government to halt Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s planned expansion of production in the oil sands after they claim the energy giant reneged on environmental promises.
The groups says Shell agreed to take steps to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from two expansion projects and received government approval based on those pledges, but failed to meet them.
The groups plan to ask the federal government and Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board to revisit permits grants to expand production by the Shell-led Athabasca Oil Sands Project. Shell’s Canadian affiliate owns 60% of the project, while Chevron Corp. and Marathon Oil Corp. each own 20%. The two projects being contested — called Jackpine and the Muskeg River expansion — would each add 100,000 barrels of daily oil production to existing facilities.
“They made a commitment in writing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions from these two projects by approximately 900,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year,” said Roland Lines, a spokesman with The Pembina Institute. “They have been telling us they are not going to follow through on that.”
The Calgary-based Pembina Institute, an environmental think tank, is being joined by lawyers from Ecojustice, a Canadian group formerly called Sierra Legal Defence Fund.
Phil Vercoe, a spokesman for Shell Canada Ltd., declined to comment until the company saw details of the allegations. He said the Muskeg River expansion was scheduled to initiate production in 2010 or 2011, but the Jackpine project was delayed pending a reassessment of costs.
Canada’s oil sands contain vast reserves of oil, second only to Saudi Arabia. But the oil is viscous and awash in sand and other impurities. Processing the sludge-like crude take enormous amount of effort and releases many more greenhouse gases than conventional crude production.
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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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