By Ed Crooks in New York
Published: December 2 2010 00:26 | Last updated: December 2 2010 00:26
Oil and gas drilling in Arctic waters off Alaska faces further delays, while areas in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and off the US southern Atlantic coast will remain off-limits, the government said on Thursday, sparking criticism from industry groups and Republicans.
Reversing its proposals from March before the Deepwater Horizon disaster that would have opened more coastline for oil and gas development, the department of the interior said it would not sell any exploration leases in the eastern gulf or southern Atlantic at least until 2017.
The news threatens further delays for Royal Dutch Shell, Europes largest oil and gas company, which has paid $2.2bn for leases in the region. Shell aimed to drill its first well in the Beaufort Sea in the summer of 2008, but its programme has already been deferred three times because of legal challenges, and its plan to go ahead next summer may have to be deferred again.
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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.
