By MATTHEW TRESAUGUE Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
April 23, 2009, 1:48PM
Shell Oil Co. has agreed to pay millions of dollars to resolve a lawsuit by two environmental groups over pollution at its Deer Park refinery.
Under the proposed settlement filed today, the Houston-based U.S. arm of oil giant Royal Dutch Shell will spend the money for equipment to reduce harmful emissions known as upset events, which occur during equipment malfunctions, unscheduled maintenance and other unforeseen events.
The exact cost of those improvements was not immediately available.
The company also agreed to pay $5.8 million for past federal Clean Air Act violations, which attorneys for the Sierra Club and Environment Texas said is the largest penalty from a citizen suit over air pollution in the states history.
The lawsuit, filed in January 2008 in Houston federal court, alleged that Shells Deer Park refinery recorded more than 1,000 upset events in a five-year period, emitting millions of pounds of pollutants more than allowed by the facilitys permits.
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.
