By BILL WHITE
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Published: October 6th, 2010 09:46 PM
Cleaning up oil spills in Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast is fraught with risks and unknowns, the staff of a national commission on offshore drilling said in a new report.
Extreme weather.
Finding oil trapped under an ice sheet.
Containing and cleaning spilled oil in broken ice.
Corralling oil within fire-proof boom before burning it.
Rapidly responding to a spill in a remote area that lacks nearby ports, airports and Coast Guard presence.
Response plans that rely on chemical dispersants whose true effectiveness in icy waters, heavy winds and weathered oil is insufficiently understood.
These are draft conclusions of the national oil spill commission’s staff. President Obama charged the commission with studying the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and federal offshore drilling policies. The commissioners hope to have their own report ready in a few months.
The 22-page draft report gives credit to the Arctic spill-response plans — called C-Plans — of Shell Oil, which wants to drill exploratory wells in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas off Alaska’s northern coast.
“Shell’s exploratory drilling C-Plan is currently the only formal industry proposal for contingency planning and oil spill response in the Arctic. While Shell’s plan acknowledges many of the challenges of spill response in the Arctic, questions remain as to whether its solutions to those challenges are realistic,” the report said.
Shell’s plan goes beyond what is required, the report said. But as the only plan that exists, officials can’t compare Shell’s ideas with those of oil companies that want to explore Arctic waters. The staff also notes that some environmentalists say the government’s spill-response standards are inadequate for a worst-case spill.
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.
