By Fred Pals
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. will start to pump natural gas in January from a Dutch wetland that contains as much as 170 billion cubic meters of the fuel, said the head of their production venture.
Shell and Exxon’s joint company has licenses to explore and produce for the next three decades in different blocks in the Wadden Sea to supplement production from their aging Dutch Groningen field. Only 60 wells have been drilled in the area over the past 60 years.
The venture, Nederlandse Aardolie Maaschappij BV, or NAM, has received all the permits to extract gas in the Wadden Sea area off the Dutch coast after the government accelerated the approval process for 32 licenses. It currently produces gas from three small fields in the area because of permits it got in the 1980s, said NAM Chief Executive Officer Roelf Venhuizen at an energy conference in Groningen, Netherlands, today.
The specific area in which NAM will work is estimated to have about 20 billion cubic meters of gas, Venhuizen said.
NAM says scientific reports show it can extract gas without causing environmental damage to the 3,800 square-mile area, which is home to seals and a transit stop for 10 million migratory birds. Environmentalists have opposed the project and continue to protest it.
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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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