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October 2011

Welcome boost for Providence as it prepares to begin work on Barryroe

By: 
Ian Lyall - Proactive Investors

Providence Resources (LON:PVR) said today there could be up to 300 billion cubic feet of gas in place at the Dragon discovery in St George’s Channel Basin, off the coast of Ireland.

The new estimate is derived from an inversion study carried out by IKON Geoscience, which remodeled historical well and seismic data.

Posted Date: 
8 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/34088/welcome-boost-f...

Good news for Providence on Dragon site

By: 
RTE News

[Shell to Sea]  Good news for Providence Resources but is it good for Ireland?

Providence Resources says a study on the Dragon gas discovery has increased the resource potential of the tested gas bearing sands.

Providence Resources says a third party seismic study on the Dragon gas discovery off the southeast coast has increased the resource potential of the tested gas bearing sands.

Posted Date: 
7 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1007/providence-business.html

Whose oil and gas? My oil and gas

By: 
My Oil and Gas group

The group behind the My Oil and Gas video which went viral last week explain why they were moved to make the film, and why they're urging people to sign up to their campaign of action to reclaim royalties from natural gas extraction for the State.

Posted Date: 
7 October 2011
Link: 

http://politico.ie/irish-politics/7931-my-oil-and-gas-film.html

'Not on my property'

By: 
Al Jazeera

Nebraska farmers say they will do everything in their power to stop a proposed $7bn oil pipeline project.

Nebraska rancher Karl Connells doesn't want a million barrels of crude oil moving across his pasture every day.

On a bright Autumn afternoon recently, he showed me the route that a giant proposed oil pipeline would take across the land his family has owned for over a century.

Posted Date: 
7 October 2011
Link: 

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/09/201193020454635356...

Woman jailed over power line stance freed

By: 
Mary Carolan - Irish Times

THE WOMAN jailed over her refusal to allow the ESB and EirGrid on to her lands in Co Offaly to complete construction of a power line was freed by the High Court yesterday after the companies said they wanted her to participate in mediation talks.

Teresa Treacy, Clonmore, Tullamore, spent 22 days in Mountjoy women’s prison after she was sent there for refusing to comply with High Court orders allowing ESB/EirGrid workers access to her land.

Posted Date: 
7 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1007/1224305389269.html

Shell’s environmental guilt confirmed

By: 
Sokari Ekine - New Internationalist

10 November 2011 will mark the 16th anniversary of the execution of Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa by the then Nigerian military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. Saro-Wiwa was one of the founding members of the MOSOP [Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People].

Posted Date: 
7 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.newint.org/blog/majority/2011/10/05/niger-delta-shell-environ...

Riding the Irish documentary wave - all the way to Paris

By: 
Ruadhan Mac Cormaic - Irish Times

Irish documentaries are enjoying huge popularity both at home and abroad, and a new festival in Paris aims to showcase their common threads – simplicity and good storytelling

IRISH DOCUMENTARIES are going through an odd sort of crisis. Here’s the paradox: budgets have tightened and TV commissions are fewer, yet domestic audiences are growing and the industry has a higher international profile than ever. The rise of feature-length productions has been unstoppable, their success setting new records every year.

Posted Date: 
7 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2011/1007/1224305381155.html

An Taisce to dispute licence for Shell gas pipeline

By: 
Fergus Black - Irish Independent

AN Taisce was yesterday given the go-ahead to challenge the decision to grant a foreshore licence for Shell's controversial Corrib gas pipeline in Co Mayo.

The challenge, which the judge described as part of an "ongoing saga" surrounding Shell's plans to develop the pipeline in Co Mayo, was given the green light by the Commercial Court.

Seeking the judicial review, James Devlin counsel for An Taisce, told Mr Justice Peter Kelly that the Minister for the Environment granted a foreshore licence for the pipeline on July 22 last.

Posted Date: 
6 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/an-taisce-to-dispute-lice...

Dáil Committe Debate of 27th Sept 2011 on Offshore Exploration Licences

By: 
debates.oireachtas.ie

[Shell to Sea] This is the Dáil committee hearing that Shell to Sea members were barred from entering despite being invited to attend by Éamon Ó Cuív: http://www.shelltosea.com/content/shell-sea-barred-d%C3%A1il-oil-and-gas-hearing

Offshore Exploration Licences: Discussion with Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources 

Posted Date: 
6 October 2011
Link: 

http://debates.oireachtas.ie/AGJ/2011/09/27/00004.asp

MY OIL & GAS - Ireland and Norway

By: 
MyOilAndGas.org

http://myoilandgas.org/ Why would Ireland give away its natural resources?

Perhaps the good people of Norway have something helpful to say...

Posted Date: 
5 October 2011
Link: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76VOnzXQMsU