By Andrew Restuccia 7/20/10 12:52 PM
Former Interior Department Secretary Gale Norton told a congressional panel today that the department, under her tenure, saw its relationship with the oil industry when permitting and licensing offshore drilling projects as one of mutual problem solving.
Nortons remarks came during a House Energy & Commerce Committee joint-subcommittee hearing on the Interior Departments involvement in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Norton, who served as Interior secretary from 2001 to 2006 under President Bush, took a job with Royal Dutch Shell after resigning, leading to a Department of Justice probe.
They also wanted to work with the expertise that industry had. Industry was at the cutting edge, coming up with new technologies every day. You cant just sit back and be distant from that, Norton said, responding to a questions from Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-Calif) about whether it was the Bush administrations policy to give less oversight to the oil industry. Dirk Kempthorne, who served as Interior secretary from 2006 to 2009, said that was absolutely not the administrations policy.
Democrats took advantage of the opportunity at the hearing to raise question about the Bush administrations oversight of the oil industry. Current Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has also come under fire for the way his department regulated the industry, will also testify before the panel today.
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.
