[Shell to Sea] Below is SIPTU's submission to the Dáil Committee into Offshore Exploration Licences. It is worth noting that in RTE's coverage of the day's proceeding, they highlighted the submission of the Oil & Gas industry lobby group IOOA and never mentioned the submission (or presence) of SIPTU (http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1122/oil.html or http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1123422).
Chairman: I welcome representatives from the Irish Offshore Operators Association and the SIPTU members and members of the general public in the Gallery.
I apologise for the delay. There was a vote in the Seanad, which held us up for 15 minutes, because under the rules of procedure we must have a quorum to commence. We are required to have a member from the Seanad or Dáil as well as meeting other rules before we have a quorum. We then dealt with the private business as quickly as we could.
Friday 25th November saw over 5 hours of Shell’s peat and stone haulage completely blocked by campaigners, and no arrests were made. First thing in the morning four campaigners had trucks blocked for over an hour and a half, and later on one person climbed on top of a peat truck outside Shell’s Bellanaboy refinery, remaining there for 3 and a half hours stopping all haulage.
Shell has started peat removal as we come into winter (which so far is looking better than summer, weather-wise). We are keeping up the protests here but people are needed. Come and visit the new warm and cosy winter camp, we’re hardly roughing it!
Irish explorer Lansdowne Oil & Gas has said it is on the hunt for farmout partners to three of its licences in the North Celtic Sea Basin offshore Ireland.
The player announced on Tuesday that it had received processed 3D seismic data carried out during the summer over the Amergin, Rosscarbery and Midleton Prospects.
Chief executive Dr Steve Boldy said that interpretation of the fresh datasets gathered using the Polarcus Samur seismic vessel was now underway.
News Release - Issued by Shell to Sea - April 12th, 2015 - For immediate release
-- Shell to Sea send submission on RTE's Public Service Statement --
Shell to Sea have today sent in a submission to RTE as part of RTE's public consultation on the updating of their Public Service Statement [1]. In the submission, Shell to Sea claimed that RTE had failed to inform the public in an honest and balanced manner on the Corrib Gas project.