The Sunday Telegraph understands that Shell is facing internal divisions over the deal and mounting political opposition.
Royal Dutch Shell has struck a stumbling block in its march into the European power sector over plans to pluck a Dutch utility from public ownership.
The Anglo-Dutch oil major is a front-runner in the €3bn (£2.64bn) race to snap up Eneco from the hands of 53 Dutch municipalities after the decision to privatise the green energy company.
The group already partners with Eneco on wind power projects in Europe, which could pave the way for its next step into the power market after buying UK energy supplier First Utility for a rumoured £200m.
But The Sunday Telegraph understands that Shell is facing internal divisions over the deal and mounting political opposition.
“The process has been stumbling on for a while but it’s like herding cats with all the stakeholders,” said one City source with knowledge of the deal.
Eneco’s shareholders have been forced to bring in a mediator to prevent the sale from descending into chaos as municipalities clash on whether to sell their stakes in the utility, and how to safeguard its green credentials.
Others rumoured to be in line for the sale include Finland’s Fortum, French energy giant Engie and private equity investor CVC. Shell declined to comment.
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
“The process has been stumbling on for a while but it’s like herding cats with all the stakeholders” – seems like the situation is really “interesting”… But I hope Shell will make it through, as awlays 🙂
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