Agence France-Presse November 5, 2010
The Dutch government said Thursday it will not allow oil giant Shell to store millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide in a depleted gas reservoir under a small town, upholding the fears of townspeople.
“The CO2 storage project in (the western town of) Barendrecht is not going ahead,” the ministry of economy, agriculture, and environment said in a statement. A “total lack of local support” was one of the main reasons for the decision, it quoted minister Maxime Verhagen as saying in a letter to parliament.
The previous Dutch government last November provisionally authorized Anglo-Dutch Shell to undertake a project to store some of the five megatonnes of CO2 emitted each year by the company’s refinery in Pernis, Europe’s largest, about 15 kilometres from Barendrecht.
But it said it would leave the final decision to the next government elected in June, a ministry spokesman explained.
Under the scheme, set to have started in 2012, the CO2 was to be carried by a pipeline, compressed, and injected into a depleted gas reservoir 1,800 metres under ground. Shell, which planned to store more than 300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year for 30 years at Barendrecht, has said the CO2 will dissolve or form minerals over time.
But the town of 50,000 threatened legal action to stop the project.
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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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