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October 2011

White Deer goes full circle for Choctaw film

By: 
Brian Fitzpatrick - Irish Emigrant

 Gary White Deer of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma made his first connections with Ireland in 1994, meeting an Irish group who had traveled to Mississippi to retrace the historic Trail of Tears and offer up a donation of $20,000 to his tribe.

Posted Date: 
18 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishemigrant.com/ie/go.asp?p=story&storyID=10184

Google's $3b tax haven loophole probed

By: 
Jesse Drucker - Sydney Morning Herald

 The US Internal Revenue Service is auditing how Google avoided federal income taxes by shifting profit into offshore subsidiaries, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Posted Date: 
18 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/googles-3b-tax-haven-lo...

News release: Rabbitte shows ‘contempt for democracy’ by issuing licensing options

News release - Issued by Shell to Sea - Monday, October 17th, 2011

 

RABBITTE SHOWS ‘CONTEMPT FOR DEMOCRACY’ BY ISSUING LICENSING OPTIONS

 

-- More exploration will not lead to greater benefits to Ireland -- 

 

Minister Pat Rabbitte has shown a “bare-faced contempt for democracy” by deciding to offer licensing options to explore for oil and gas in Ireland’s Atlantic territory, according to the Shell to Sea campaign. 

 

Mr Rabbitte has ignored an ongoing Joint Oireachtas Committee review of Ireland’s licensing system. 

 

Shell to Sea spokesperson Maura Harrington said: “By stubbornly insisting on pressing ahead with these licensing options without waiting for the outcome of the Oireachtas review, Rabbitte is displaying a bare-faced contempt for democracy.” 

 

“It is shocking to witness the extent to which Pat Rabbitte has signed up to the oil industry’s line about the need for ‘generous’ terms for oil companies. He appears to have come under undue pressure from his civil servants to rush ahead with this latest giveaway.” 

A Knight in Oily Armour: Tony O’Reilly and Exxon Mobil

By: 
Tel - Indymedia

Back then, in 1983, O’Reilly was interviewed by American magazine Forbes, and outlined how his geologist selected six blocks of seabed and how Atlantic acquired the exploration rights for those blocks, saying ““Since I own 35 per cent of the newspapers in Ireland I have close contact with the politicians. I got the blocks he wanted.” 

Link: 

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/88795

Offshore exploration permits granted

By: 
Lorna Siggins - Irish Times

Minister for Energy Pat Rabbitte has awarded 13 new licensing options to explore for oil and gas in Ireland’s Atlantic offshore area.

Some 12 companies are involved in the 13 awards, selected from a record number of 15 applications submitted under a bidding system initiated by former Fianna Fáil minister of state for energy Conor Lenihan.

The new licensing round will allow successful companies the first refusal on exploration licences over 250,000sq km of the Atlantic shelf, which is an area about three times the size of the island of Ireland.

Five companies already active in Irish waters and seven new entrants have been offered acreage on the Porcupine, Slyne and Rockall basins under a two-year license agreement.

Posted Date: 
17 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/1017/breaking17.html

13 licences granted for oil & gas exploration

By: 
RTE News

Thirteen new licences have been granted for gas and oil exploration for the Rockall, Slyne and Porcupine basins off the Irish coast.

Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte said the licences were granted following an assessment of 15 applications submitted last May.

Posted Date: 
17 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1017/energy.html

Peak oil: We are asleep at the wheel

By: 
Jeremy Leggett - The Guardian

Revelations that the Saudis have overstated their oil reserves are a timely reminder of the huge threat to the global economy

Posted Date: 
17 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2011/feb/10/peak-oil-sau...

TD alleges ministers and public servants in pact

By: 
Martin Wall - Irish Times

A “FAUSTIAN” pact developed between ministers and senior public servants, chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee John McGuinness has said.

Posted Date: 
17 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2011/1013/1224305705396.html

Tullow accused of acts of bribery in Uganda

By: 
Jody Clarke - Irish Times

An Irish firm is alleged to have paid a politician for oil field concessions, writes JODY CLARKE in Kampala

THREE SENIOR Ugandan politicians appeared before the country’s high court yesterday on corruption charges, in the latest scandal that also saw Irish company Tullow Oil accused in parliament of bribing one of the accused.

Foreign minister Sam Kutesa, junior labour minister Mwesigwa Rukutana and chief whip John Nasasira, who all resigned on Wednesday, were accused of misusing funds meant for hosting the 2007 Commonwealth summit.

Posted Date: 
15 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1014/1224305758151.html

Ireland Orders Investigation into Shale Gas Fracking

By: 
Erica Mills - Natural Gas Europe

The possibility of successful shale gas reserves in Ireland has been met with mixed reactions in the country. However, for a country struggling with severe debt and recession, the prospect of billions of euro worth of gas reserves is an undeniably attractive prospect.

 

Posted Date: 
15 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.naturalgaseurope.com/ireland-orders-investigations-into-shale...