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August 2011

Shell Contractor Quarry Shut Down For Day

By: 
j debender- Rossport Solidarity Camp- Indymedia

 Barret’s Quarry in Bangor Erris shut down by protesters

On Wednesday 31st August at 8am 15 people entered Barrett’s quarry, just outside Bangor Erris in Co. Mayo and stopped work for the whole day, leaving at 5:30pm. Barrett’s is a subcontractor on the Corrib Gas Project, currently bringing truckloads of gravel and hardcore to Shell’s site in Aughoose.

 

Posted Date: 
31 August 2011

Shell contractor quarry shut down by campaigners in Mayo

For Immediate Release-Issued by Shell to Sea-Tuesday, August 31st, 12.30pm

 

Shell contractor quarry shut down by campaigners in Mayo

MEP claims he was assaulted at peaceful Corrib protest

By: 
Áine Ryan - Mayo News

A SOCIALIST Party MEP has claimed he was assaulted by gardaí at a peaceful protest, held last week near Aughoose, the site of the latest phase of the controversial Corrib gas project. Paul Murphy said he was in ‘excruciating pain’ after he was poked in the ribs and that his left ear was twisted repeatedly by a garda.

Posted Date: 
30 August 2011

Ó Cuív prefers jail to paying septic tank charge

By: 
Lorna Siggins - Irish Times

[Shell to Sea] It seems lately Éamon Ó Cuív is trying to promote himself as the man of the little people, yet while in Government he continuously backed Shell over the people.  He also was constantly telling the people the laws and legal channels needed to be respected.  Yet now he's threatening to become an outlaw himself.

Posted Date: 
30 August 2011

Exploration licences to be approved before Dáil sitting

By: 
LORNA SIGGINS, Marine Correspondent

THE DEPARTMENT of Energy says new oil and gas exploration licences for the Atlantic margin will be approved before the resumption of the Dáil next month.

However, Fianna Fáil energy spokesman Éamon Ó Cuív has appealed to Minister for Energy Pat Rabbitte to defer his endorsement until a promised review of the State’s current oil and gas licensing terms by an Oireachtas committee.

Posted Date: 
30 August 2011

Protecting our resources

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Editorial - The Irish Times

OF ALL the big questions facing the State, few have more profound long-term implications than the management of our natural resources. Official estimates suggest a potential reserve of hydrocarbons equivalent to 10 billion barrels of oil off the west coast alone. Were all of this to be recovered, it would be enough to supply Ireland’s gas and oil needs for a century.

Posted Date: 
29 August 2011

Sharing energy with Norway

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Letters to the Irish Times - 26/08/11

A chara, – A small ray of hope is entering my heart that at last there is the germination of a public debate on who owns our hydrocarbon resources (Fintan O’Toole, Opinion, August 16th and 23rd, Pat Rabbitte, August 18th). The public apathetic disconnect on this vital issue is lessening somewhat if the well-thought-out letters on the matter in your paper are anything to go by.

Posted Date: 
28 August 2011

Sharing energy with Norway

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Letters to the Irish Times - 25/08/11

Sir, – Fintan O’Toole is clutching at straws (Opinion, August 23rd). He accurately describes the failings of political and administrative culture, but deftly ignores the factual arguments Minister for Energy and Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte presented (Opinion, August 18th) in his reply to Mr O’Toole (Opinion, August 16th).

Posted Date: 
28 August 2011

Thanks for support from Marion under the dilling rig

By: 
Marion

MEP Paul Murphy - How the Gardai assaulted me and other peaceful protestors in Rossport

By: 
Paul Murphy - MEP

I came to Rossport today as part of a delegation of Socialist Party members to support the community and the Shell to Sea campaign against an unsafe onshore high pressure pipeline being and to protest against the giveaway of our natural gas and oil resources to multinationals like Shell.

Posted Date: 
27 August 2011