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June 2011

Shell apologises for Bacton gas terminal blast

By: 
Eastern Daily Press

Energy giant Shell UK has today publicly apologised for the serious failings which led to a massive explosion at its Bacton gas terminal.

The hearing at Norwich Crown Court has heard how the blast in February 2008 could have killed as many as 10 people, had it happened at a different time.

Fortunately the blast happened when workers were swapping over with night-shift teams.

Shell Uk has admitted seven breaches of health and safety and environmental regulations following the explosion and subsequent fire.

Posted Date: 
18 June 2011

New York Screening of "The Pipe"

By: 
NoGasPipeline.org

Clare Donahue, of Un-NaturalGas.org, is a principal founder of Sane Energy Project, a coalition of like-minded groups relative to the environment and how gas pipelines and fracking are destroying our lives in so many ways. Consider her comments and plan on seeing The Pipe.

June 20th, 7:30
The Brecht Forum
451 West Street at Bank Street

Posted Date: 
18 June 2011

Award-winning documentary 'The Pipe' now for sale on DVD

By: 
Ciaran Tierney - Galway City Tribune

'The Pipe' is available in shops and online from today. In Tesco's, IFI, Laser, Lee Records Tralee and Mayo County Library, and on http://thepipe.myshopify.com/ retailing at €14.99

 

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Posted Date: 
17 June 2011

Pobal Chill Chomáin requests meeting with Minister

By: 
Mayo Advertiser

Dear Minister Pat Rabbitte,

Following your interview on Morning Ireland programme (June 1 2011) Pobal Chill Chomáin is very concerned with many of your comments in relation to the Corrib gas project as they appear to show a lack of familiarity with a project which has taken over the lives of the residents of this parish for the past 11 years.

Posted Date: 
17 June 2011

Sample Letter to TD's on Corrib

A number of people have requested a sample letter to send to TD's.  Below is a sample letter which can be sent

Posted Date: 
16 June 2011

Messages of support following 'The Pipe' on More4

Here is a small selection of the messages of support sent in to the website, since "The Pipe" was shown on More4 on Tuesday.  Other messages of support can be viewed on http://www.facebook.com/shelltosea

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Sorry i have to ask what mayo man enda has done to help you ? Did he support you before his election .

Posted Date: 
16 June 2011

Vermilion seeks Corrib expansion

By: 
Gordon Deegan - Irish Examiner

CORRIB gas partner Vermilion expects to pay Marathon Oil an additional $135 million (€95m) in order to complete the purchase of its 18.5% share of the gas field.

Posted Date: 
16 June 2011

How do you oppose a pipeline being built in your area?

By: 
BBC News

Listen to Richie O'Donnell of The Pipe and John Egan of Shell in interview here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13764678

What do you do when a gas company wants to drill a pipeline through your neighbourhood?

That's what some residents in Rossport, County Mayo, have been fighting against since gas was discovered off the coast of Corrib in 1996.

Shell Oil wants to pipe the natural gas from under the sea to a refining plant inland.

Posted Date: 
15 June 2011

Rape tape gardaí all interviewed

By: 
Áine Ryan - Mayo News

ALL the gardaí at the centre of the ‘Corrib rape tape’ debacle have now been interviewed by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC), it has emerged.
The chairman of the garda watchdog, Dermot Gallagher, also confirmed last week that the videotape – in which officers were inadvertently recorded joking about raping a female Corrib protestor  – has been sent out of the jurisdiction for forensic analysis to confirm its authenticity.

Posted Date: 
15 June 2011

When Cowboys Cry

By: 
Sandra Steingraber - Orion

LAST NOVEMBER, at the annual meeting of the Northern Plains Resource Council, which took place in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Billings, Montana, I watched a cowboy cry.

As someone born east of the Mississippi, I’m aware that I may have my vocabulary words mixed up here. The crying man called himself a rancher, not a cowboy. But he had the hat. The legs in the blue jeans were bowed. And he said things like, Sometimes you have to ride with the brand, and sometimes you have to speak yer mind.

Which sounded like cowboy talk to me.

Posted Date: 
15 June 2011