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Royal Dutch Shell not ruling out Canadian layoffs in 10% cut
By MARKUS ERMISCH, SUN MEDIA
Last Updated: 30th October 2009, 3:19am
Royal Dutch Shell, a major player in Alberta’s oilsands, is cutting 5,000 jobs internationally as part of a sweeping corporate reorganization.
Europe’s largest oil company, however, remains mum on how its Canadian workforce will be impacted.
Excluding contractors, Shell employs about 6,100 people in Canada, most of whom work in Alberta.
“A broader reorganization is now underway, and we expect a 10% headcount reduction in the redesigned divisions and functions, mostly in management and non-operational positions,” Simon Henry, Shell’s chief financial officer, said during a conference call yesterday.
The company is not ruling out layoffs in Canada, but declines to give details.
More than half of the job cuts will impact the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the U.S., said spokeswoman Kirsten Smart.
This latest announcement follows a 20% reduction of senior management positions over the summer.
Henry said he cannot rule out further staff cuts in other divisions of the company.
“We will not stop our intent to improve performance or to reduce costs where we need to reduce them as we reach the end of the year,” he said.
Shell’s third-quarter earnings totalled $3 billion this year, compared to $10.9 billion one year ago.
Earlier this month, the federal and Alberta governments chipped in a combined $800 million toward a project to reduce carbon emissions from Shell’s Athabasca oilsands project at the Scotford upgrader.
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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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