NOVEMBER 18, 2015 10:20 AM
Extracts
Shell has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent per barrel from its oilsands business in the past five years, through many small efforts, including making more efficient use of its trucks.
Yet that hasn’t stopped Shell from being a target and paying a high price for the anti-oilsands campaign.
Last month it cancelled the 80,000-barrels-a-day Carmon Creek oilsands project in Peace River in mid-construction, taking a $2-billion impairment charge.
Some 3,500 construction and 350 permanent jobs vanished. Some staff had worked on it their entire careers.
Lack of pipeline capacity was one of the deal-breakers. The others were a “perfect storm” of low oil prices, constrained capital and better projects elsewhere in Shell’s global portfolio.
Meanwhile, Shell’s base oilsands business has focused on becoming resilient at low oil prices – its operating costs have declined to US$27 a barrel, 30 per cent lower than five years ago.
Production has steadied at 224,000 barrels a day from two mines, with 60 per cent going to Shell and the remaining 40 per cent equally owned by partners Chevron Corp. and Marathon Oil Co., as the group focused on making its operations more globally competitive.
It’s a considerable change of heart for a company that only eight years ago was talking about aggressively expanding its oilsands business to 770,000 barrels a day, that was so pleased with Canada’s political and regulatory stability it deployed here a big part of its global spending.
It’s a different story today.
Mitchelmore, a geophysicist who has worked for Shell around the world, doesn’t yet know what she will do next, other than spending more time with her two young daughters, living in Calgary, and making herself heard.
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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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