BEIJING: Deals | Mon Dec 14, 2015 2:23am EST
China has given unconditional clearance to a proposed merger between Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) and BG Group (BG.L), clearing the final key regulatory hurdle for the $70-billion tie-up, Shell said on Monday.
The clearance means the pre-conditional approval process is complete, the Anglo-Dutch company said in a statement.
Prior to the approval, industry sources told Reuters that Chinese authorities were pressing Shell to sweeten long-term gas supply contracts as the world’s top energy consumer faces a large surplus of the supplies as a demand boom at home falters.
“We will now seek approval from both sets of shareholders as we move toward deal completion in early 2016,” Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said, according to the company statement.
Australia approved the merger earlier this month, leaving China as the last regulatory hurdle to the deal.
Together with BG, Shell would supply around 30 percent of China’s natural gas imports by 2017.
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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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