Posted by Peter Lattman
December 27, 2006, 3:42 pm
Royal Dutch Shell announced today that it has hired former Interior Secretary Gale Norton as an in-house lawyer. Norton, who stepped down from her White House post in March, will be based primarily out of Colorado, where she served as the state’s attorney general from 1991 through 1999. At Shell, she will serve as general counsel for the company’s unconventional resources division, which deals with extracting oil from sources such as oil shale and extra heavy oil.
According to this White House bio, Norton earned her law degree from the University of Denver in 1978. From 1979 to 1983, she was a lawyer for the Mountain States Legal Foundation. She also served as a lawyer for the Department of the Interior and was an assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. Before becoming Interior Secretary in 2001, she was senior counsel at Denver-based Brownstein, Hyatt & Farber.
Norton’s move comes amid rising congressional scrutiny of the Interior Department’s dealings with the oil industry, specifically the agency’s policies for collecting oil and gas royalties from public lands. The Mineral Management Service unit of the Interior Department has come under particular scrutiny; in December, it reached an agreement on royalties on Gulf of Mexico leases with five oil companies, including Shell.
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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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