The New York Times
Natural gas exploration and production has been on a tear in recent years, thanks to the explosion of drilling in shale gas fields across the United States and the first glimmers of a boom in Europe.
At the same time, natural gas production in neighboring Canada has been declining because of aging conventional gas fields as well as a series of delays in the long-planned construction of a natural gas pipeline along the MacKenzie Valley in western Canada that would connect Arctic fields with the rest of the country.
However, the 800-mile project, spearheaded by Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil jumped a major hurdle late Wednesday.
A federal review panel that had been studying the $16 billion project for the last five years issued a detailed report endorsing it.
The report concluded that the pipeline would deliver valuable and lasting overall benefits and avoid significant adverse environmental impacts.
The project has long been controversial with some tribal communities and environmental groups as a threat to local cultures, and because it would probably provide a feedstock for the further development of Canadas oil sands, a fuel source with a large carbon footprint.
The report offered 176 recommendations to diminish impacts, and called for regional plans to protect many species, including polar bears, caribou and beluga whales.
But its still not certain that the oil companies will want to go ahead with the project, given the glut of gas now on the market and low prices.
The federal government also must decide whether it wants to contribute money to the project.
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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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