Shell says 90 per cent of the supply vessel staff will come from Nova Scotia
25 Sept 2015
Four ships are standing by in Halifax Harbour, waiting for Shell Canada Ltd. to get the green light to hunt for oil in the deep waters of Nova Scotia.
The company expects to begin drilling two exploration wells in the Shelburne Basin within the next few months, pending approval from the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board.
“What we are waiting on at this point is the very important regulatory approvals and the availability of the ship conducting the drilling activity,” said Shell spokesperson Cameron Yost.
Two ships chartered by Irving Atlantic Towing, the Breau and the Jones Tide, will soon transport food and fuel to the Shell offshore site. A larger boat will supply pipe and drill mud stored in new tanks built on the Dartmouth side of the harbour.
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The drilling will be done from a platform aboard a harsh-weather drill ship leased by Stena, a Norwegian company.
“About half of the crew on the Stena IceMAX will be Canadian and half of that number will be from Nova Scotia,” Yost said. “Ninety per cent of the folks that will be staffing the supply vessels come from Nova Scotia.”
The Stena IceMAX is still working in the Gulf of Mexico and can carry up to 180 crew. Yost says the ship will take about ten days to move to offshore Nova Scotia.
Despite the drop in oil prices, Shell is committed to drilling at least two exploration wells as part of a multi-year billion-dollar program.
First, it needs a decision from the offshore board on its drill plan — and whether the plan must include well-capping equipment able to arrive within 24 hours or 21 days in the event of an accidental blowout.
Critics of the 21-day plan say that amount of time is the equivalent of 40 tide cycles and lacks any mitigation plan other than adding a chemical dispersant, which will be toxic to marine life. A group of local environmentalists plan to hold a rally at Shelburne Harbour on Oct. 3rd to protest the plan.
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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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