December 24, 2011
An environmental group says an oil spill off the coast of Nigeria this past week could stretch across more than 900 square kilometers of ocean.
The U.S.-based group, SkyTruth, says it estimates from satellite images it has obtained that the slick is 70 kilometers long and spans 17 kilometers at its widest point.
Royal Dutch Shell discovered the spill Tuesday about 120 kilometers off the southern coast of Nigeria.
Shell estimates the amount of leaked oil at less than 40,000 barrels and says the spill has been stopped.
Nigeria’s National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency says the amount of oil that leaked into the ocean is similar to the last major spill at a Mobil field in 1998.
Shell says the leak happened in a pipeline that transfers crude oil from a production vessel to a waiting oil tanker.
The company says it has deployed airplanes and vessels with dispersants to locate and break up the leaked oil, which is moving towards the shore.
Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.
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.
