The Telegraph
Greenpeace accused of siding with Putin and putting British security at risk
Greenpeace has been accused of making Britain more vulnerable to Russian blackmail by urging a judge to block drilling at a major North Sea gas field.
The eco campaign group claims Shell was wrongly granted a development licence for the Jackdaw field without proper environment checks last month, in defiance of the UK’s climate commitments.
It has brought a legal challenge against the Government and is vowing to frustrate other schemes brought forward in the North Sea as well.
Philip Evans, a spokesman for Greenpeace UK, said the decision to approve Jackdaw was a scandal and would make no difference to domestic energy bills.
But a Whitehall source claimed that blocking domestic oil and gas production would leave Britain more exposed to European markets and a potential squeeze by the Kremlin.
The war in Ukraine has forced European Union countries to cut their consumption of Russian gas and find alternative sources after Vladimir Putin suggested a key pipeline could be turned off.
The Whitehall source said: “Choking off domestic oil and gas does nothing to reduce demand, it simply leaves Britain more reliant on foreign imports, more vulnerable to supply shocks, and more exposed to Kremlin attempts to weaponise the gas market.
“The only people who want to stop North Sea production are Greenpeace activists and Putin.
“We support the extraction of North Sea oil and gas and will vigorously defend this decision.”
Greenpeace rejected that suggestion, pointing to statements made by ministers themselves which downplayed the impact North Sea resources can have on the energy crisis.
Jackdaw, which sits roughly 155 miles east of Aberdeen, could account for as much as 6.5pc of the North Sea’s total gas output by 2025 under plans put forward by Shell.
Although the company’s plans for the field were initially knocked back by environmental regulators, they were later approved in June following revisions.
On Monday Shell confirmed it had taken the final investment decision to proceed. Zoe Yujnovich, Shell’s upstream director, said: “Investments like Jackdaw are… providing the energy people need today while serving as the foundation for investments in the low carbon energy system of the future.”
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.
