2010-11-05 07:41
The Hague – Plans for storing carbon dioxide underneath a small town, a strategy that reduces harmful emissions to combat global warming, were scrapped on Thursday by the Dutch government.
The government had planned to pump 11 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2011 from a Royal Dutch Shell oil refinery into two depleted gas fields 2km under Barendrecht, a town of 43 000 people.
But Economic Affairs Minister Maxime Verhagen said the plan “is no longer possible in the short term” because it has already been delayed for three years and the town’s residents do not support it.
Homeowners have fiercely objected to the proposal and worry that housing prices will plummet because potential buyers will fear CO2 leaks. The storage technology of the gas is still in its experimental stages.
Verhagen said in a letter to parliament that storing CO2 would remain part of the Dutch government’s strategy to combat climate change.
“Stopping in Barendrecht does not mean the end of carbon dioxide storage in the Netherlands,” he said.
The Netherlands already stores CO2 under the North Sea. Verhagen said he would also begin talks with the North Holland province about the possibility of building another underground storage facility.
Protesters who had fought the Barendrecht scheme could not immediately be reached for comment.
– AP
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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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