Former employee of Shell Oil USA - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com
It is clear from these cables that Royal Dutch Shell has the Dutch government in their hip pocket. No surprise there, the Queen must get her dividends. Royal Dutch Shell management apparently thinks it has so much influence it can dictate foreign policy matters to ALL of the G8 governments? Isn’t that a revelation. Maybe not after all we have learned about Shell’s not so secret ‘shadow government’ in Nigeria.
MINISTER FOR Energy Eamon Ryan is expected to issue a decision in “the coming weeks” on Shell E&P Ireland’s application to construct the last section of the Corrib gas pipeline. But it could still be two years or more before the gas starts coming ashore.
Mr Ryan’s decision will follow An Bord Pleanála’s landmark ruling yesterday that approved the developer’s revised plans for the onshore link.
THE final section of the Corrib gas pipeline has received planning permission from An Bord Pleanála. This decision means that Shell can now proceed to link the pipeline landfall at Glengad to the €1 billion gas terminal at Bellanaboy. This is the third application made at Shell Exploration and Production in the last ten years in relation to the project.
The revised new route will include an undersea tunnel going through Sruwaddacon Bay, which will carry a 5km section of the pipeline.
GAS from the controversial Corrib Gas field could be flowing into homes and businesses within three years after An Bord Pleanala yesterday gave the go-ahead for the final section of the pipeline.
Opposition to Shell’s inland refinery and high-pressure onshore pipeline will continue and escalate, the Shell to Sea campaign said today.
The campaign was reacting to today’s news that An Bord Pleanala has granted permission to Shell to lay the onshore pipeline carrying raw gas through the areas of Glengad, Pollathomais, Aughoose, Leenamore and Bellanaboy.
An Bord Pleanála has approved Shell E&P Ireland’s third proposed route for the final section of the Corrib gas pipeline with 58 conditions.
Inspector Martin Nolan, who chaired last year’s resumed oral hearing on the revised plan, says that the application’s “clarity and transparency” provides “confidence that the safety of the public is fully protected, and that the public will not be put at risk”.
A giant natural gas explosion has killed a utility worker in Philadelphia.
The explosion was caught on video as firefighters and utility employees worked to patch a high pressure gas main that had ruptured in a residential neighbourhood.
The body of the Philadelphia Gas Works employee was found after flames calmed down.
Four other workers and one firefighter were transported to local hospitals, the Philadelphia fire commissioner confirmed.
Garda security was tight at the public meeting hosted by Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahey in a Galway hotel last night, with both uniformed and a number of plain-clothed Garda present both in and outside the conference room.
Mr Fahey said he had not requested the Garda presence at the Clayton Hotel, and said that everyone was welcome to attend, including a number of protesters supporting the Galway Unites Against the Cuts campaign.
News Release - Issued by Shell to Sea - April 12th, 2015 - For immediate release
-- Shell to Sea send submission on RTE's Public Service Statement --
Shell to Sea have today sent in a submission to RTE as part of RTE's public consultation on the updating of their Public Service Statement [1]. In the submission, Shell to Sea claimed that RTE had failed to inform the public in an honest and balanced manner on the Corrib Gas project.