December 16, 2011, 5:06 PM EST
By Jim Snyder
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc won conditional U.S. approval for a plan to drill as many as six exploration wells in Alaskas Chukchi Sea next year, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said.
Final approval requires Shell to meet safety and environmental-protection measures, according to an e-mailed statement today from the Interior Department bureau. Shell will have to stop drilling 38 days before ice appears in the Arctic, to avoid an end-of-the season spill when cleanup is difficult, the agency said. The U.S. projects ice will form by Nov. 1.
We will continue to work closely with agencies across the federal government to ensure that Shell complies with the conditions we have imposed on its exploration plan, Tommy Beaudreau, bureau director, said in the statement.
Shell, which has invested about $4 billion in the Arctic leases since 2005, hasnt drilled any wells in the region while opponents won delays with appeals and lawsuits. Environmental organizations and Alaskan native groups have said it would take too long for equipment to reach the remote and icy region during an oil spill.
Shell acquired its leases to the Chukchi Sea in 2008.
The Interior Departments Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement must approve Shells oil-spill response plan before drilling can start, according to the statement.
The company needs permits from the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service, according to the statement.
–With assistance from Katarzyna Klimasinska in Washington. Editors: Steve Geimann, Larry Liebert
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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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