Despite our investment in acreage and technology and our work with the stakeholders, we havent been able to drill a single exploration well, Voser told reporters today on a conference call. Critical permits continue to be delayed and the timeline for getting these permits is still uncertain.
ROYAL DUTCH SHELL CEO PETER VOSER
Bloomberg
By Eduard Gismatullin – Feb 3, 2011 12:19 PM GMT+0000
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europes largest oil company, will delay its drilling campaign in Alaska after the worst U.S. oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year.
Shell hasnt received full clearance to start drilling off the coast of Alaska, according to Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser. The company decided to postpone its plans to spend as much as $150 million in the region until 2012.
Despite our investment in acreage and technology and our work with the stakeholders, we havent been able to drill a single exploration well, Voser told reporters today on a conference call. Critical permits continue to be delayed and the timeline for getting these permits is still uncertain.
The Hague-based company last year asked the U.S. Interior Department for a permit to conduct exploratory drilling this year in the Beaufort Sea. Shell in 2008 offered $2.1 billion for drilling rights in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska.
Alaska may hold the second-biggest U.S. oil and gas reserves after the Gulf, according to government estimates.
Shell in November said it had planned to limit the effect on wildlife from exploration in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, meeting the concerns of environmental campaigners.
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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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