By Sheila McNulty in Houston Published: October 10 2010
Royal Dutch Shell is offering to spend tens and tens of millions of dollars building an oil spill containment system for Arctic conditions if the US government permits it to drill offshore Alaska.
The bid is a last-ditch effort by Shell to advance a $3.5bn investment it has made to drill in Alaska.
Pete Slaiby, Shell Alaska vice-president, warned the situation could get acrimonious if Shell took legal action to recover losses caused by government barriers to drilling on leases it had paid for. But he said he thinks Shell will gain the permits.
The ball is in the governments court, Mr Slaiby said. They need to step up the pace on this review. Environmentalists object to Shell tacking new procedures on to its old drilling plan, given that BPs disaster underlined how major accidents can happen.
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
