On three dates, records showed, Shell emitted more toxic compounds in a single day than its permits allowed in an entire year.
Shell Reports Equipment Failure, Flaring at Deer Park, Texas, Refinery -Filing
Published March 10, 2013 by Dow Jones Newswires
Shell Oil Co. said equipment failure at its Deer Park Refinery in Deer Park, Texas, resulted in flaring Saturday, when a release of acid gas was routed to a flare stack during normal procedures, a report to the U.S. National Response Center said.
The filing didn’t specify which unit or units were involved in the incident, nor did it say whether the event had an impact on production.
A Shell representative wasn’t immediately available to comment.
The 327,000-barrel-a-day Deer Park Refinery is operated by Shell Oil, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA RDSA.LN RDSB RDSB.LN), in partnership with PMI Norteamerica S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex.
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RELATED: Small Fire at Deer Park, Texas, Refinery Quickly Extinguished
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Shell Oil Co. on Monday said a small fire that occurred at its Deer Park Refinery, in Deer Park, Texas, early Saturday morning was quickly extinguished by on-site emergency responders.
The refinery on Saturday reported equipment failure and emissions of acid gas to the U.S. National Response Center. It wasn’t clear whether this event was in any way related to the fire.
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Public interest groups have sued Texas companies under the federal Clean Air Act to force pollution cuts that neither the state nor the EPA had achieved. In one such case, Environment Texas and the Sierra Club sued Shell’s massive refinery and chemical complex in Deer Park, near Houston, in early 2008. Despite Shell’s state permits, the environmental groups found more than 1,000 occasions from 2003-06 when emissions exceeded hourly limits, which are meant to protect the public from acute, short-term harm. On three dates, records showed, Shell emitted more toxic compounds in a single day than its permits allowed in an entire year.
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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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