By James Paton – Jun 15, 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0100
Australia should introduce a cap- and-trade system to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and act earlier rather than later to tackle climate change, Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) said.
The clock is ticking, Ann Pickard, chairman of Shells operations in Australia, said today in a speech in Sydney, according to an e-mailed copy of her presentation. I do think that its in our interest for Australia to be an example to the rest of the world.
Australia, which has about A$200 billion ($214 billion) of proposed liquefied natural gas projects targeting Asian demand for the fuel, also needs well thought-out policies on labor and immigration to deliver a skilled work force, she said. A surging Australian dollar has made labor even more important to solve, she said.
Shell, Europes largest oil company, expects to invest about $30 billion during the next five years on oil and gas developments in Australia, it said in May. The company plans to pioneer the use of floating LNG technology to develop the Prelude project off northwest Australia and is Chevron Corp. (CVX)s partner in the proposed Gorgon LNG project.
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Comment posted on Shell Blog by “Outsider” on Jun 15th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Theres a certain irony in Ann Pickards lecturing of the Australians. I believe her previous assignment included responsibility for Nigeria? Have her views on greenhouse gases really changed so significantly since she arrived Down Under?
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.
