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July 2014

Oil and Gas Fiscal System

By: 
Clare Daly - TD

Posted Date: 
22 July 2014

Report on Rossport Art Weekend

By: 
C - Indymedia

On Friday the 11th July, people started gathering for the art weekend in which murals and new campaign banner and signs were prepared. Straight away work on the house with the mural “The struggle goes on” was started along with the sign on the roof which reads “Strength in Community”.

Saturday wasn’t suitable for outside work so after a fair while designing what the signs should say, work commenced at a shed which we were kindly given the use of for the weekend.

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The various signs included one quoting Kevin Moore, the first An Bord Pleanala Inspector who looked into the siting of the Refinery at Bellanaboy. In 2003, he labeled the proposed location as “the wrong site”.

Posted Date: 
21 July 2014

Summary of Corrib Court Cases

By: 
Court Reporter - Indymedia

On Wednesday 9th July, 6 Corrib campaigners appeared in Belmullet District court to answer charges as a result of their opposition to Shell. While the following Friday John Monaghan appeared in Castlebar Circuit Court, where he was appealing a conviction of obstruction and careless driving outside Shell's Aughoose compound.

Posted Date: 
21 July 2014

Shell whistleblower OSSL challenges Irish police officers to take lie-detector test

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

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OSSL, the company that admits supplying free alcohol to Irish police on behalf of Shell EP Ireland is challenging senior Irish police officers, who apparently deny receiving the goods said to be worth tens of thousands of Euros, to take lie detector tests. 

Posted Date: 
21 July 2014

Defamatory posters at Shell Ireland HQ today

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

CORRIB LIES AND COVER-UP

Former Irish Shell supplier OSSL, the “Mr Fixit” company that turned whistleblower over Shell corruption of the Garda, has today upped the defamation stakes still higher by putting posters on public display outside Shell EP Ireland HQ in Dublin.

Posted Date: 
19 July 2014

GSOC finds ‘no evidence’ for Belmullet garda booze allegations

By: 
Áine Ryan - Mayo News

A GARDA Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) investigation into allegations that certain gardaí, policing the Corrib gas project, received gifts of alcohol from Shell, has found ‘[no] evidence of the purchase or delivery of alcohol to garda stations, nor of any misconduct of garda members’. Both Shell E&P Ireland and An Garda Síochána welcomed the report but declined to comment to The Mayo News on whether they would take legal action against OSSL for possible reputational damage due to the public nature of the allegations.

Posted Date: 
15 July 2014

All guns blazing from company that alleged Shell Corruption of Irish Police

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

“Let us clearly state Officers Gilligan, Gill Butler and Grimes offloaded alcohol exactly as described by OSSL, and as clearly understood by Michael Crothers CEO of Shell when he offered to pay for it in The Burlington Hotel in Dublin in the presence of legal people for both Shell /OSSL.”

By John Donovan

Posted Date: 
15 July 2014

Consultancy firm paid €212,873 for report on oil and gas fiscal system

By: 
Gordon Deegan - Irish Examiner

The Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources paid €212,873 to consultancy firm Wood Mackenzie to examine the "fitness for purpose" of Ireland’s oil and gas fiscal system.

The spend works out at more than €2,100 per page for the 100-page report delivered at the end of May.

Posted Date: 
14 July 2014