By John Murray Brown
Published: April 24 2009 03:00 | Last updated: April 24 2009 03:00
Masked men armed with chains and iron bars broke into Shell’s gas refinery in the west of Ireland last night, in an escalation of the local protest against the oil company’s 900m ($1.2bn, £800m) project.
Police said about 15 men using bolt cutters gained access to the site, hijacking a company digger truck and causing considerable damage to the facility.
Shell’s investment in County Mayo to process gas from its vast Corrib field off the Atlantic coast is one of the country’s most important infrastructure projects, set to provide up to 60 per cent of Ireland’s future gas needs.
John Murray Brown, Dublin
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009
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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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