By Paul Okolo – Aug 30, 2010 7:37 PM GMT+0100
Assessment of damage from crude spills in part of Nigerias oil-rich Niger River delta is being hindered by angry mobs, an official of the United Nations Environment Program said.
Work in the Gokana local government area, one of four councils where studies of the impact of the oil industry in the Nigerian region are being conducted, is on hold, Mike Cowing said at a meeting with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan today in the capital, Abuja.
We had to withdraw from Gokana until such a time as the security situation will allow us to return, he said, without saying why the residents are objecting.
Royal Dutch Shell Plcs Nigerian unit is funding the study, with a report planned to be submitted by January, Cowing said.
The Niger Delta region, where people from the Ogoni ethnicity live, was a hotbed of protests against Shell and the Nigerian government in the 1990s in campaigns led by writer and environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was hanged in 1995.
Samples of ground water, plants and animal tissue have been taken from three council areas where the people arent posing problems. Scientific studies on the material are in progress, the UNs environmental branch said in a statement handed to reporters.
The team investigated 171 spill sites, said Cowing. While many of them constituted low risk, a few were of high risk in terms of size and nature of the spills, he said.
Shell has a 30 percent stake in a joint venture with state- owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., which controls 55 percent. Total SA has 10 percent and Eni SpA holds the remaining 5 percent.
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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.
