Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:36PM EDT
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A U.S. federal appeals court in San Francisco on Wednesday upheld an order blocking Royal Dutch Shell Plc from exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska’s north coast.
“We are disappointed,” said Shell in a press statement that added that no drilling will mean the loss of “hundreds of permanent jobs that would be created if Shell is successful in Alaska.”
The ruling essentially says that a handful of environmental groups, Alaska Native groups and the North Slope Burough have merit in their arguments that the drilling could harm the environment. This sets up proceedings for the same Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to look into the matter more fully.
With December being the first chance for the three-judge panel to address the issue again, this shuts out Shell from drilling this winter before the Beaufort Sea freezes.
The three-judge panel ruled on Wednesday that the groups challenging Shell “raised serious questions and demonstrated the balance of hardships tips sharply in their favor,” according to the ruling.
The ruling upholds a July 19 hold on Shell’s operations called until the ruling issued Wednesday.
The challenge to Shell said bowhead whales were endangered by the exploratory drilling, as was sustenance hunting.
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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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