Published: Jan. 6, 2011 at 5:25 PM
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Jan. 6 (UPI) — Officials with Royal Dutch Shell said they were invited before the Dutch Parliament to discuss ongoing concerns about activity in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
Royal Dutch Shell is under fire for its operations in Nigeria as oil rebels ramp up activity following the collapse of a November cease-fire. The Dutch Parliament invited Shell in for what was described as a “fact-finding session” to address Shell’s work in Nigeria, London’s Telegraph newspaper reports.
Some activists say Shell is responsible for chronic oil spills in Nigeria, which some environmental groups estimate could have spilled as much as 9 million barrels of crude oil since the 1950s. The company blames rebels for the spills, though advocacy groups counter their claims.
Shell officials in an e-mail message to United Press International said they were invited to the Netherlands for a round-table conference on West African development Jan. 26 in part to address Nigeria.
A Shell spokesman told UPI that the Dutch session was planned before lawmakers visited Nigeria.
Meanwhile, Ann Pickard, now chairwoman of Shell’s operations in Australia, was quoted as saying in leaked U.S. diplomatic documents given by WikiLeaks to London’s Guardian newspaper that her company had access “to everything” inside the Nigeria government.
Shell described the leaked diplomatic cables as “untrue” and a spokesman from the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. downplayed the cable as the “interpretation” of a U.S. envoy.
The Nigerian army launched a major offensive against rebel groups operating in the Niger Delta about six weeks ago.
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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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