By Stephen Treloar and Katarzyna Klimasinska – Jun 26, 2012 3:32 PM GMT+0100
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) will begin drilling off Alaska’s north coast in the third quarter, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said as he outlined U.S. plans to advance Arctic energy production.
“We anticipate that there will be exploration with the initial wells going in by Shell this summer,” Salazar said today in an interview at a meeting of energy ministers in Trondheim, Norway. “We have now pending exploration plans that have been submitted by other companies as well.”
Shell is awaiting U.S. approval of the final permit to develop leases bought in 2005 and 2008. ConocoPhillips (COP) and Statoil ASA (STL) also won rights in the region and plan to join The Hague-based Shell in the area last explored in early 1990s.
Arctic drilling has been challenged in court by environmental groups and some native Alaskans who say it may lead to a disaster similar to BP Plc (BP/)’s well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, triggering the biggest U.S. offshore spill.
Shell plans to drill in about 120 feet (37 meters) of water, while BP’s well was about 5,000 feet deep.
The U.S. plans to sell more oil and gas exploration licenses in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas in 2016 and 2017 as the nation seeks to bolster domestic energy reserves,Salazar told reporters today.
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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.
