By Fred Pals
April 6 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plcs shareholders and employees as well as car owners are being called upon to back a campaign by the environmental group Friends of the Earth Netherlands to stop Shell from flaring gas in Nigeria.
The campaign to keep Shell from releasing gases in the air starts April 8, the group said today in an e-mailed statement. This policy contributes substantially to the global climate problem and causes severe damage to the environment, Geert Ritsema, spokesman for Friends of the Earth, said in Amsterdam.
The Hague-based Shell has invested more than $3 billion in Nigeria to cut the flaring of gas, which is pumped together with crude oil, by about 60 percent from 2002 levels, Nick Wood, vice president of communications for exploration and production, said in the transcript of an Aug. 12 Web chat. The sum includes the impact of lowered output due to security issues, he said, with Shell needing to invest $3 billion more to complete the program.
Nigeria flared about 16.8 billion cubic meters of gas in 2007, second only to Russia, which burned off about 50 billion cubic meters that year, according to World Bank data. Flaring, which adds to greenhouse-gas emissions, happens where sufficient infrastructure doesnt exist to bring the fuel to consumers.
Shell said in the August Web chat that Nigeria may allow the burning of gas associated with oil production beyond a December deadline set by the Senate, or upper chamber of parliament.
Shell Petroleum Development Co. produces about 80 percent of Nigerias gas, according to the Anglo-Dutch companys Web site. The company will try to process more gas that is currently flared when security in the Niger Delta production area improves and militant fighting there subsides, it said.
Shells press department didnt immediately return a telephone call today seeking 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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