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June 2011

SIPTU calls for moratorium on oil and gas licenses until Oireachtas review is completed

By: 
SIPTU

A moratorium should be placed on the issuing of oil and gas exploration licences until the completion of a promised Oireachtas review of the licensing system, a wide-ranging SIPTU report on the development of Ireland’s hydrocarbon resources has recommended. “Optimising Ireland’s Oil and Gas Resources”, a report produced by the SIPTU Oil and Gas Review Group, concludes that, if managed correctly, the country’s hydrocarbon reserves could provide the basis for a major indigenous industry which could generate long term employment and significant revenues for the State.

Launching the report in Dublin today (Thursday, 30th June) SIPTU general president, Jack O’Connor, said; “It is the considered view of the SIPTU Oil and Gas Review Group that no new exploration licenses for oil and gas should be issued by the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (DCENR) until a detailed re-assessment of the current licensing system is completed under the proposed Oireachtas review.”

Posted Date: 
30 June 2011
Link: 

http://www.siptu.ie/media/pressreleases2011/fullstory,14688,en.html

Rossport Solidarity Camp Update June 2011

Greetings from Mayo!
July looks set to be a really busy month. Come up for one of the events listed below or feel free to visit us at any time; there's always loads to do and it's a great chance to learn more about the campaign and get involved. We offer accomodation & food, donations welcome.
Looking forward to seeing you soon, everyone at camp x

Posted Date: 
30 June 2011
Link: 

http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org/content/camp-update-june-2011

Government incentives reignite Petrel’s oil drilling interest

By: 
Irish Trucker

Petrel has renewed its interest in offshore drilling in Ireland after the Government revised incentives for commercial exploration.

Petrel – formed in 1982 to explore for oil off the Irish coast - wants to explore blocks in the Porcupine Basin off Ireland’s west coast.

Petrel’s original Irish venture failed but it has enjoyed considerable global success, with current operations in Iraq and Ghana.

Posted Date: 
30 June 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtrucker.com/news/government-incentives-reignite-petrels-...

Address by Minister Pat Rabbitte to Energy Ireland Conference

Energy Ireland Conference
Dublin, 1st June 2011

Chairman (Pierce) - thank you for your warm welcome.

I am delighted to be with you this morning and to have the opportunity to deliver this address at this, the fifteenth Energy Ireland event – and my first as Energy Minister.

Posted Date: 
30 June 2011
Link: 

http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Corporate+Units/Press+Room/Speeches/Address+by+M...

Impromptu 2 hour tractor occupation at Shell Compound

Plans to re-designate Broadhaven Bay as a site of Special Protection Area an insult 

Three actions in as many days at the Aghoos site in Mayo as protests against Shell continue unabated.

Posted Date: 
29 June 2011
Link: 

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100109

Gas leaks into south Israel nature preserve after pipeline burst

By: 
Zafrir Rinat - Haaretz

Pipe collapses while Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company performing maintanence in Tzin Valley.

A large amount of gas leaked into the Nahal Tzin Nature Preserve in the Negev after a major Eilat pipeline burst on Wednesday. The leak caused major damage to the southern Israel nature preserve’s wildlife.

The pipe burst when the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC) was performing maintenance work in the Tzin Valley. While EAPAC was working in the nature preserve, a pipeline collapsed, resulting in the leakage of a large amount of crude oil into Nahal Tzin.

Posted Date: 
29 June 2011
Link: 

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/gas-leaks-into-south-israel-nature-...

A couple of days at the Shell to Sea Camp

By: 
Robin Wilson - Facebook

I'm just back from the Shell to Sea campsite in Mayo. I have to say the campaign over there is one of the most inspiring things I have ever seen. Shell and their "security" (mercenaries) have taken over that part of Mayo, and these protesters are all that is standing in the way of Shell raping our country of e600bn of gas, destroying some truly breathtaking scenery and putting a lot of lives at risk with untried and unsafe processing techniques. 

Posted Date: 
29 June 2011
Link: 

http://www.facebook.com/notes/robin-wilson/a-couple-of-days-at-the-shell...

Mayo fishermen halt co-operation with Shell

By: 
Lorna Siggins and Aine Ryan, The Irish Times

NORTH MAYO fishermen say there has been a “serious breakdown in trust” between them and Shell EP Ireland over the handling of marine survey work on the Corrib gas offshore pipeline.

More than 40 fishermen, who had accepted compensation as part of a three-year-old legal agreement with Shell, have withdrawn all co-operation with the company, following recent damage to gear.

Posted Date: 
29 June 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0629/1224299730902.html

A ‘case study in mismanagement’ – Irish oil company’s view of Shell at Corrib

By: 
Emer McLysaght - TheJournal.ie

THE MANAGING DIRECTOR of an Irish oil and gas company has said that Shell’s handling of the Corrib gas controversy is a “case study in mismanagement”.

A Shell to Sea slogan painted on an abandoned house just outside of Rossport village in Co. Mayo

Posted Date: 
28 June 2011
Link: 

http://www.thejournal.ie/a-case-study-in-mismanagement-irish-oil-company...

Wind turbines, rural Ireland and my back yard

By: 
Michael Viney - Irish Times

Environmentalist MICHAEL VINEY has long believed in wind power – but had mixed feelings when developers came knocking at his door, with their eye on his mountain

THE YOUNG ENERGY entrepreneur from Cork who spread his maps on our dining table in autumn 2008 was full of high-tech enthusiasm. Here, he showed us, would be the 10 big wind turbines, spaced out along the top of the fields between us and Mweelrea Mountain. So the sea winds would whisk away whatever small noise they might make.

Posted Date: 
28 June 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2011/0628/1224299677588.html