Daily Telegraph
Oil firms attacked for tar sands pollution
Oil companies have come under pressure at Copenhagen to scale back investment in production from tar sands, as Royal Dutch Shell was branded the world’s second worst corporate lobbyist for its support of the industry.
Published: 9:44PM GMT 15 Dec 2009
Both Al Gore, former vice-president of the United States, and Naomi Klein, the author and campaigner, urged the Canadian government to abandon its support for the heavily polluting oil sands at the deadlocked talks on climate change in the Danish capital. The tar sands are seen as one reason why Canada has been reluctant to commit to tougher targets for reducing its emissions.
Ms Klein claimed that Monsanto, the world’s largest seed producer and prolific investor in carbon offsetting, was the most obstructive company at Friends of the Earth’s Angry Mermaid awards voted on by 10,000 people.
Shell, which has spent $2.4m lobbying US senators so far this year, came second in the survey with 18pc of the vote for promoting its “investments in the energy-intensive tar sands”.
“There are very few sessions about the role of corporations on influencing the process at Copenhagen,” Ms Klein said. “It’s been a very polite affair here in Copenhagen where people we don’t like to name names. But we are talking about those behind governments. Lobbyists love anonymity. What we are trying to do is drag them out of the shadows into the light.”
The American Petroleum Institute, which has campaigned against a US emissions trading system, came third with 14pc of the vote.
Meanwhile, in London, campaigners scaled the Canadian embassy and defaced the national flag in protest against the drilling in Alberta.
Among hundreds of protesters in Denmark, Maude Barlow, chairman of the Council of Canadians, called the tar sands “Canada’s Mordor”.
Shell declined to comment.
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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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