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September 2011

Gas hunt will not involve chemicals, firm says

By: 
Marese McDonagh - Irish Times

THE CHIEF executive of a gas exploration company which hopes to extract shale gas in the Lough Allen Basin yesterday reiterated the company’s undertaking that chemicals would not be used in the process.

About 150 people who are opposed to “fracking” staged a demonstration outside the offices of Leitrim County Council in Carrick-on-Shannon last night. Fracking is a method of creating fractures in rocks to extract gas.

Posted Date: 
8 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0906/1224303587751.html

Rabbitte adopting a short-sighted approach to offshore oil and gas resources

By: 
Colm Rapple - Irish Mail on Sunday

Labour minister Pat Rabbitte is doggedly going ahead with his intention to grant more offshore exploration licences on the basis of the flawed objective of encouraging more exploration activity. It’s flawed because the real aim should be to get the maximum return for the Irish people from their natural resources. Some exploration is necessary to achieve that result but maximising exploration won’t necessarily maximise the return.


2006 - Pat Rabbitte presenting Vincent McGrath & the people of Rossport with a collection of Michael Davitt's prison notes

Posted Date: 
7 September 2011
Link: 

http://colmrapple.com/?p=158

Press Release: Another Corrib Gas figurehead gone, the community endures.

News release - Issued by Shell to Sea - Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

Yesterday it emerged that Terry Nolan has announced that he is to resign as managing director of Shell E&P Ireland limited at the end of the year. The resignation comes hot on the heels of a string of controversies engulfing the Corrib gas project.

Barrett's Quarry

By: 
Dave Donnellan - Vimeo

Barrett's Quarry from Dave Donnellan on Vimeo.

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: 
7 September 2011
Link: 

http://vimeo.com/28574549

Protecting our resources

By: 
Letters to the Irish Times

Sir, – Heartfelt congratulations on your Editorial of August 29th.

It is indeed imperative that Minister for Energy and Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte defers a decision on issuing any exploration licences in respect of the current exploration licensing round. This until such time as his promised indepth Oireachtas committee review is concluded. Any other action will not serve the interest of this nation and its people. – Yours, etc,

MIKE CUNNINGHAM,

(Former Director,

Statoil EP Ireland),

Posted Date: 
7 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/letters/index.html#1224303499552

YouTube Video: Insane car drag from Shell refinery Mayo

By: 
Rossport Solidarity Camp

Posted Date: 
7 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Z-E-Im3n4

Protecting our resources

By: 
Letters to the Irish Times

Sir, – Your call for a pause in the issuing of exploration licences until the end of the year to allow the Oireachtas committee on communications, natural resources and agriculture to conduct a rigorous review is correct (“Protecting our resources”, August 29th).

Posted Date: 
7 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2011/0906/1224303587880.html

Visceral viewing - Review of The Pipe

By: 
The Citizen

The Tri Continental Film Festival (TCFF) is South Africa’s only dedicated human rights film event.

The films that are selected every year are films that  promote democratisation, deepen understanding, and afford the marginalised a substantive voice.

Here are reviews of three films being shown at this year’s festival:

8/10 The Pipe (A)

Posted Date: 
7 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.citizen.co.za/citizen/content/en/citizen/movie-reviews?oid=22...

'Old politics' evidently alive and kicking

By: 
Fintan O'Toole - Irish Times

Nothing makes people quite so cynical as the spectacle of elected politicians adopting attitudes like uniforms, writes FINTAN O'TOOLE 

See how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief . . . Change places, and handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? – King Lear

Posted Date: 
7 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0906/1224303587734.html

Protecting our resources

By: 
Letters to the Irish Times

Sir, – As a former ambassador to Denmark and Norway (1998-2001) I would like to endorse your call for judicious and far-sighted harvesting of this country’s oil and gas reserves (Editorial, August 29th).

Posted Date: 
5 September 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2011/0905/1224303499552.html