Shell cites the global economic downturn and the effects upon its oil shale program as the reason for withdrawing its water rights application to divert 375 cfs of water from Yampa River in northwest Colorado. Combined with a storage component of the proposed project, Shell may have been able to divert up to 60,000 acre-feet of water annually for use in commercially developing oil shale.
Regarding todays decision by Shell to withdraw its application for water rights in the Yampa River for oil shale development, Western Resource Advocates President Karin P. Sheldon released the following statement:
Western Resource Advocates commends Shell for withdrawing its application for oil shale water rights in the Yampa River, one of the last free-flowing rivers in the West.
Oil shale development is incompatible with sustaining the Wests clean air and water, rural agricultural communities, and wild landscapes.
Although Shell says it will continue with its research, the company acknowledges that the process will be slow and contingent upon such factors as the development of a viable oil shale production technology. It is obvious that commercial oil shale development is still not ready for prime time.
As a result of Shells actions, Colorado residents can breathe a little easier and the Yampa River lives to flow another year.
Western Resource Advocates filed one of the 25 statements of opposition to Shell’s water rights filing in Colorado Water Court.
Peter Roessmann | Western Resource Advocates
Communications Coordinator
2260 Baseline Road, Suite 200 | Boulder, CO 80302
303.444.1188 x221
[email protected]
www.westernresourceadvocates.org
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.
