Thu Oct 8, 2009 2:53pm EDT
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – The Canadian and Alberta governments have promised C$865 million ($823 million) to help oil major Royal Dutch Shell Plc develop carbon capture and storage at its oil sands processing plant in an effort to help meet goals to curb global warming.
In a letter of intent, Alberta has signaled it will contribute C$745 million and Ottawa will kick in C$120 million for the Quest project at Shell’s Scotford upgrader near Edmonton. The overall cost of the project was not immediately disclosed.
Shell’s project was picked out of three that had made the short-list for public funding. The governments had also weighed proposals from groups including Epcor and Enbridge Inc as well as Enhance Energy and Northwest Upgrading.
Alberta is known for its vast oil sands, which represent the largest source of crude outside the Middle East. But developing and producing the tar-like crude is carbon-intensive and environmental groups have launched major campaigns to warn of the developments’ environmental impact on the fight against global warming.
Shell, with partners Chevron Corp and Marathon Oil Corp, aim to capture 1.1 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually, representing a cut of about 40 percent of those emissions from the upgrading plant.
In total, Alberta, which expects massive expansion of its oil sands industry, has set aside C$2 billion to invest in development of carbon capture schemes as it aims to reduce emissions by about 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2050.
Canada is aiming for an overall 20 percent reduction from 2006 levels by 2020.
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(Reporting by Jeffrey Jones; editing by Rob Wilson)
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
