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September 2013

Update on Garda investigation of Shell Corrib Corruption

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

I have been supplied with several extracts from current correspondence involving Garda Supt Thomas Murphy, Shell and OSSL, some of which has been copied to Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Peter Voser and Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan.

Supt Murphy is carrying out an investigation of the OSSL allegations, which include the claim that OSSL delivered free alcohol to Garda stations on the instruction of Shell E&P Ireland. The consignments, amounting to tens of thousands of euros in value, were all festive gifts.

Posted Date: 
16 September 2013
Link: 

http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2013/09/15/update-on-garda-investigation-o...

Loadsabooze for Shell's cops

By: 
Naoise - Shell to Sea

That's the spirit; "drive them into the sea."

Following recent articles in both The Observer and The Sunday Times newspapers about Shell's use of a sub-contractor to deliver van loads of booze to Belmullet police station, a further delivery awaited Shell's cops yesterday morning as they went into the monthly Belmullet District Court session.

 

Posted Date: 
12 September 2013
Link: 

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/104068

Eight Shell to Sea protesters due in court over public order offences

I am before this Court today on charges under Sections 8&9 of the Public Order Act and Section 53 of the Road Traffic Act alleged on 01 August and 03 August 2012.

Posted Date: 
12 September 2013
Link: 

http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2013/09/11/eight-shell-to-sea-protesters-d...

News Release: Eight due to appear in court over Corrib protests

News release - Issued by Shell to Sea - Tuesday, 10th September 2013

Eight campaigners are due to appear in Belmullet District Court this Wednesday (11th Sept) charged in relation to protesting against the Corrib Gas project.

Included among the eight campaigners are both Shell to Sea spokespersons Maura Harrington and Terence Conway along with Pobail Chill Chomáin spokesperson John Monaghan. 

Also due to appear in court is Gerry Bourke, the farmer who provided the field for the Rossport Solidarity Camp for the last two years. [1]

Following the recent allegations  by a former subcontractor for Shell, that they supplied bribes of alcohol to the Belmullet Garda station for 3 years, Human Rights group Afri stated that they believe "that there there are abuses of Garda power in Erris of ‘Donegal proportions’, as revealed in the Morris Tribunal, and that urgent, immediate and independent investigation is required." [2,3,4]

Details of next exploration licences due early in 2014

By: 
Geoff Percival - Irish Examiner

Speaking on the sidelines of the opening session of the two-day Ireland Oil & Gas summit in Dublin yesterday, Fergus O’Dowd, the natural resources minister, said while no decision had been made on the timeframe of the next licensing round or what area of the coast it will involve, more clarity should be available during the first three months of 2014.


Protest outside the Oil & Gas summit
 

Posted Date: 
11 September 2013
Link: 

http://www.irishexaminer.com/business/details-of-next-exploration-licenc...

German man dies in Corrib Tunnel dig

By: 
Ciara Galvin - Mayo News

A German national who was fatally injured while working in the Corrib Tunnel at Aughoose on Sunday last, has been named as 26-year-old Lars Wagner from Offenburg in southern Germany.
The mechanical fitter sustained the fatal head injury early Sunday morning when a compressed air pipe reportedly came free.
Mr Wagner was pronounced dead when his body was brought to the surface after 9am.

Posted Date: 
11 September 2013
Link: 

http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1851...

Corrib gas partner sees losses grow to €30m

By: 
Gordon Deegan - Irish Examiner

Losses at Vermilion Energy, one of the Corrib gas field partners, last year rose by 50% to €30.8m

The Canadian-owned firm has an 18.5% share in the gas field and figures lodged with the Companies Office by Vermilion Energy Ireland Ltd show that losses increased from €20m to €30.8m in the 12 months to the end of last December. Accumulated losses were €203.4m.

Posted Date: 
11 September 2013
Link: 

http://www.irishexaminer.com/business/corrib-gas-partner-sees-losses-gro...

Department of Energy consultant unable to access Corrib gas tunnel on recent inspection

By: 
Lorna Siggins - Irish Times

A Department of Energy consultant tasked with the most recent inspection of the Corrib gas pipeline works was unable to gain access to the tunnel as he did not have the necessary certification.

The consultant, attached to British firm Graeme Peterson Associates, visited the tunnelling work site at Aughoose in north Mayo on July 2nd-3rd, following reports of “sinkholes” or “air depressions” on the surface of Sruwaddacon estuary.

Posted Date: 
10 September 2013
Link: 

www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/department-of-energy-consulta...

Shell corruption scandal that won’t go away

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

Although numerous people including at Shell and the Garda have been named on this website in connection with the Corrib gas corruption scandal, still no defamation proceedings have been issued against me or OSSL?

Posted Date: 
9 September 2013
Link: 

http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2013/09/09/shell-corruption-scandal-that-w...

Investigation opens after man killed at Corrib pipe tunnel site

By: 
Lorna Siggins - Irish Times

German national suffered head injuries in incident 1.8km below north Mayo estuary

Investigations are under way into the death of a young German national who was killed in a workplace incident in the Corrib gas tunnel under construction in north Mayo.

The man, who was single and in his mid-20s, sustained fatal head injuries early yesterday morning in the tunnel currently being dug some 1.8km below Sruwaddacon estuary when a compressed air pipe reportedly came free.

Posted Date: 
9 September 2013
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/investigation-opens-af...