Monday, December 10, 2007 4:29 AM EST
Talk about a flip-flop. Elements of the environmental movement that once abhorred whaling as a cruel slaughter of highly intelligent creatures now give whaling their blessing, as long as it allows the environmental left to take a swipe at Big Oil in the bargain.
Royal Dutch Shell wants to begin offshore oil exploration north of Barrow and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, where huge reserves are believed waiting. Though the drilling sites are well to the west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, opposition has arisen because drilling would divert bowhead whales to the north, out of range of Inupiats who kill about 60 of the animals annually.
Today’s Inupiat whalers use such ancient practices as shooting explosive harpoons out of rifles to dispatch the whales more quickly and safely (for the whalers) rather than stone-tipped wooden harpoons.
Environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council, are siding with the Inupiats. Their position contradicts their principles for three reasons. First, bowhead whales, numbering just 8,000, are vulnerable to extinction. Second, U.S. tolerance of Inupiat whaling diminishes the moral authority of activists who seek to curtail factory whaling by Japan, Norway and other seafaring nations. Third, the environmental movement used to say any killing of whales was wrong because of their extraordinary intelligence, an issue science has yet to resolve.
As for the Inupiat, they compromised their own traditions by adding modern weaponry to their arsenal. Perhaps the solution would be to let Royal Dutch Shell drill in exchange for providing modern, steel-hulled ships to ferry the native whalers to the bowheads’ new feeding grounds.
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2007/12/10/opinion/303605.txt
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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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