The Associated Press
Published: April 29th, 2010 11:39 AM
Last Modified: April 29th, 2010 11:40 AM
FAIRBANKS — A large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has come at a tricky time for two companies seeking to increase Arctic exploration.
The Gulf spill occurred weeks after Shell and Conoco Phillips said they would boost oil exploration in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. Shell, which paid $2 billion for offshore leases, recently secured key air-quality permits from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Shell spokesman Curtis Smith said company officials don’t think the Gulf spill will delay the remaining permits.
“We don’t have any reason to believe those outstanding permits will be impacted by recent events in the Gulf of Mexico,” Smith wrote.
Janice Hastings, a Seattle-based deputy air quality manager for the EPA, said the permits would be effective once they clear early May appeal deadlines.
A spokeswoman for Conoco, which paid $506 million for Arctic development rights, declined comment on the spill’s implications for offshore activity.
“We think there should be a time out from leasing and drilling,” Miller said. “We should take a cautious, science-based approach to development.”
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said it will take months to understand the accident and its implications for offshore exploration in the Arctic. The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, on which Murkowski is ranking Republican, will hold a hearing next week on federal Outer Continental Shelf development plans. “As we look to expand exploration off our nation’s coasts, it’s critical that we take every possible precaution to guard against similar accidents,” Murkowski said in a statement. “It’s imperative that we find out everything we can about what went wrong on the Horizon.”
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
