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September 2011

Shell’s chief in Corrib project calls it a day

By: 
Keith Bourke - Western People

THE managing director of Shell E&P Ireland Limited is to retire before the end of the year.

Terry Nolan announced his decision to staff recently. Mr Nolan joined Shell Ireland in 2006, having worked in the oil and gas industry for more than 30 years.

Most of his career has been spent with Shell, including posts all over the world.

The Offaly native paid tribute to the people he had worked with and met during his time on the Corrib gas project.

Posted Date: 
15 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.westernpeople.com/news/ojaueyaumh/

Press Release: Belmullet court today filled with 17 Shell to Sea campaigners

Defiant mood as defendants arrive early to blockade Shell offices

At 8am this morning 25 people blockaded Shell's office in Belmullet, Co. Mayo, 17 of whom are due in Belmullet district court this morning facing charges for protesting against Shell's Corrib Gas Project. Most of the cases are to do with blocking the road Shell uses for transporting equipment and making deliveries to their tunnelling compound under construction in Aughoose.


Jailing pensioner

By: 
John Cuffe - Letter to the Irish Indepedent

•Mr Justice Daniel Herbert was in an unenviable position when he was forced to jail a 65-year-old woman for refusing permission to two monoliths of industrial Ireland wishing to enter her land to progress their intentions.

The judge was correct in what he did and in law. In acknowledging a certain admiration for the lady, the judge added that the citizen was setting herself against the Constitution of Ireland and the courts . . . if allowed "we may as well sink into anarchy".

Posted Date: 
14 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/jailing-pensioner-2875708.html

Teresa Treacy Ordered to Jail over ESB Powerlines

“You picked the wrong place here” - Teresa Treacy to ESB consultant Shane McLoughney, April 2007.

Teresa Treacy, a 65 year old woman from Tullamore, Co Offaly has been ordered to jail by High Court Judge Daniel Herbert at the request of the ESB.

Ms Treacy, who shares the family farm with her sister Mary at Woodfield House, Clonmore, Tullamore, Co Offaly has refused the ESB access to her lands in order to protect the natural environment and the native trees that she has managed there for many years.

Posted Date: 
14 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100498

To Shell and back in beautiful Mayo

By: 
Pádraic Mac Coitir - Anderstown News

The coast of Mayo is one of the most spectacular and breathtaking in Ireland. But for all its stunning beauty there is a part of the county that is a blight on the landscape. 

Posted Date: 
13 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.belfastmedia.com/features_article.php?ID=1745

Kenya fire: Nairobi pipeline blaze 'kills at least 75'

By: 
BBC News

Scores of people have died after a petrol pipeline explosion and fire in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

The blast took place in the city's Lunga Lunga industrial area, and police and troops cordoned off the area as firefighters battled fierce flames in the surrounding shanty town.

A Red Cross official, Pamela Indiaka, said at least 75 bodies had been recovered. Some reports put the toll at more than 100 dead.

More than 110 people were injured.

Posted Date: 
13 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14879401

Ireland Grants Province Of Connaught To Shell

By: 
Porncrabcombo
Rio: Minister for Duplicitous Rhetoric, Pat Rabbitte, today announced that he had made a democratic decision on the exploitation of Ireland's natural gas and oil resources off the West coast of the country. His decision came as a shock to many as he has been involved in heated exchanges with journalist, Fintan O'Toole, over the past number of days regarding Mr O'Toole's public denouncement of Mr Rabbitte's treatment of the issue of granting licences to oil exploration multinationals to exploit the Irish waters.
 
Posted Date: 
13 September 2011
Link: 

http://porncrabcombo.blogspot.com/2011/08/ireland-grants-province-of-con...

Former Shell chairman James Smith to lead deregulation of UK oil and gas industry

By: 
Rowena Mason - The Telegraph

The Government has appointed James Smith, the former UK chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, to lead a radical deregulation of the oil and gas industry.

Charles Hendry, the energy minister, promised oil executives at Aberdeen's annual Offshore Europe conference that they would be facing less regulatory oversight in years to come.

Mr Smith, the longtime head of Shell UK, who retired this year, will start gathering opinions in November from companies on how to cut regulation.

Posted Date: 
13 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/8745063...

Film on Mayo’s gas struggle strikes a chord with US communities

By: 
Emigrant Online

Risteard O’Domhnaill’s stunning documentary, The Pipe, which covers the struggle of the people of Rossport, Co. Mayo as they battle the oil giant Shell’s encroachment onto their lands, is currently taking in a tour of US cities.

Posted Date: 
13 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishemigrant.com/ie/go.asp?p=story&storyID=10003

Woman jailed for blocking power line works

By: 
The Irish Times

A JUDGE has ordered that a woman be sent to prison due to her refusal to comply with High Court orders allowing ESB and Eirgrid access to her land to complete the construction of a power line.

Posted Date: 
13 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0913/1224304028246.html