LONDON | Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:29pm BST
(Reuters) – Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L), fuel distribution firm Greenergy and storage company Vopak are putting together a joint bid to buy the Coryton refinery as a storage terminal, a union official said on Wednesday.
The union said it would fight the move, which would put the vast majority of the 900 workforce out of a job, and will step up protests to encourage the government to support a bid to keep it operational.
“We’re hearing it’s a tripartate agreement,” said Russ Ball, regional representative for Unite the Union.
“It’s something we are fighting against, we are going to take our protests at fuel terminals national and we will be protesting outside DECC (the Department for Energy and Climate Change) tomorrow,” he said.
The purchase would enable the firms to better control fuel distribution to London and the southeast of England.
Workers from the Coryton refinery on Monday and Tuesday disrupted the supply of fuel heading to some petrol stations in the southeast of the country.
Coryton is currently being wound down as crude supplies run out, and redundancies are expected next week.
Shell and Greenergy declined to comment. Coryton administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers and Vopak were unavailable for immediate comment.
(Reporting by Simon Falush; Editing by David Cowell)
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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.
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