By Katarzyna Klimasinska – Jul 12, 2011 6:39 PM GMT+0100
President Barack Obama created an interagency working group led by the Interior Department to oversee oil and natural gas exploration in Alaska.
The group will coordinate permit decisions and environmental reviews for onshore and offshore projects, including Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)s plan to drill in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, David Hayes, deputy Interior secretary and the working-group leader, told reporters today in Washington.
Were not looking to this group to be a super-permitting agency, to be a one-stop shop, Hayes said. The primary purpose of this is to ensure coordination and broad sharing of information.
Shell is waiting for U.S. approval to begin exploring on leases The Hague-based company purchased in the Beaufort Sea in 2005 and in the Chukchi Sea in 2008. Shell needs permits from agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.
The working group was established today in an executive order issued by the White House.
Shell has said it plans to drill as many as two wells a year in the Beaufort Sea, and as many as three a year in the Chukchi Sea from 2012 through 2013 after investing $3.5 billion on Alaska drilling efforts.
Obama in his weekly radio and Internet address on May 14 said the administration will encourage domestic production with annual lease sales in Alaska, creating a new team to coordinate Alaska drilling, faster evaluations of oil and gas resources in the Atlantic Ocean and incentives to develop unused leases.
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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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