By Fred Pals
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. started pumping natural gas from a Dutch wetland that contains as much as 20 billion cubic meters of the fuel.
Shell and Exxon’s joint company has licenses to explore and produce for three decades in blocks in the Wadden Sea to supplement production from the venture’s aging Dutch Groningen field. Only 60 wells have been drilled in the area in 60 years.
The venture, Nederlandse Aardolie Maaschappij BV, or NAM, received permits to extract gas in the Wadden Sea area off the Dutch coast after the government accelerated the approval process for 32 licenses. NAM currently produces gas from three small fields in the area under permits it received in the 1980s.
“We’ve started this week to pump gas from six fields at three different locations,” NAM spokesman Reinier Treur said in a phone interview from Assen, Netherlands, where NAM has its headquarters. “Total production could reach 20 billion cubic meters by about 2030,” he said.
NAM says scientific reports show gas can be extracted without causing environmental damage to the 3,800 square-mile area, which is home to seals and is a transit stop for 10 million migratory birds. Environmentalists have opposed the project.
To contact the reporter on this story: Fred Pals in Amsterdam at [email protected]
Last Updated: February 9, 2007 04:54 EST
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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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