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October 2014

Big oil, small village... The protester

By: 
Sarah McCabe - Sunday Independent
 

Maura Harrington is a retired primary school principal and spokesperson for the Shell to Sea campaign. She lives about 25km from the Corrib gas terminal and has protested against the project since its very early days.

Maura Harrington, Shell to Sea Campaign at the entrance to the Gas Terminal at Bellanaboy Bridge, Co. Mayo. Photograph : Keith Heneghan / Phocus

What they did was place a major industrial site on a greenfield area. In the 21st century, dirty industry is not innovative.

"Jobs at any cost is not a good enough reason to place a major industrial site in a beauty spot. Where do we draw the line? About 40 years ago someone tried to get a nuclear power plant built here, citing emigration. And it hasn't even been the answer to unemployment.

"Erris remains bedevilled by emigration - Shell is not the great white hope. The gas terminal has caused real division in this area. Its legacy will far outweigh any short-term jobs.

"What about jobs for people in the area who are opposed to Shell? Why should they be left behind? One of my children is unemployed, he wouldn't take a job with Shell and has no choice but to emigrate.

Posted Date: 
26 October 2014

Shell being blackmailed?

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

UPDATED FRIDAY 24 OCTOBER 2014 – SEE BLUE TEXT BELOW

ORIGINAL ARTICLE PUBLISHED 22 OCTOBER 2014

By John Donovan

There is evidence, some of it covertly obtained, that Royal Dutch Shell Plc may be the victim of a sustained blackmail operation.

Posted Date: 
25 October 2014

Shell being blackmailed?

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

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By John Donovan

There is evidence, some of it covertly obtained, that Royal Dutch Shell Plc may be the victim of a sustained blackmail operation.

Posted Date: 
22 October 2014

Some of the OSSL banners

By: 
OSSL

Posted Date: 
22 October 2014

Press Release - Shell to Sea dismisses Shell’s PR as “beads and baubles”

News Release - Issued by Shell to Sea

Shell to Sea dismisses Shell’s announcement that it will provide €750,000 installing fibre-optic broadband as a fistful of beads and baubles in comparison with the billions of euros worth of gas that was gifted to them in the Corrib Gas field. [1]  

Former Managing Director of the Corrib Gas project, Brian O’Cathain previously stated in 2010 “That Corrib will never pay tax”.[2]

Maura Harrington stated “Shell says it will spend €750,000 (tax deductible), big deal.  Shell again clicks its fingers and Enda Kenny comes toadying to do the needful.

Shell 15 page confidential statement about OSSL allegations

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

[Shell to Sea] One of the statements in the 15 page document states "OSSL made statements that "favours" were provided under Shell instruction and that invoices were amended to reflect general project activities like ditch digging, fencing and ground work, when in reality OSSL claimed gifts were given to people in the community to get them onboard and supporting the project."

Posted Date: 
20 October 2014

Shell is to provide broadband along the Corrib gas pipeline

By: 
Paul Hosford - TheJournal.ie

SHELL IS TO spend €750,000 providing high-capacity broadband for the west, but some locals don’t believe it will make much of a difference.

The Taoiseach is in Mayo today to launch Erris Enterprise Week, sponsored by the energy giant and where the announcement was made.

The investment will see the company provide 132 kilometres of high capacity fibre broadband to the State in ducting put in place by the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (DCENR).

Posted Date: 
20 October 2014

Shell installing broadband cable for parts of Galway and Mayo along gas pipeline

By: 
RTE

A new fibre optic cable has been commissioned to run through parts of Galway and Mayo to improve broadband access.

The 130-kilometre line will run along a gas pipeline that travels from the Corrib Gas terminal at Bellanaboy, Co Mayo to Athenry, Co Galway.

The cable will run along ducting that was installed at a cost of over €5m to the State when the pipe was being laid by Bord Gáis in recent years.

The fibre optic cable is being installed by Shell and the company said it will then hand over the line to the State.

Posted Date: 
20 October 2014

They're decommissioning democracy

By: 
Gene Kerrigan - Sunday Independent
The clowns behind the McNulty farce are the clowns behind the Water Tax
 
There was a Fine Gaeler on Morning Ireland on Thursday and - God, I haven't laughed aloud so much in a long, long time - the tears were coming down my cheeks.
 

Cathal Mac Coille did one of those quiet, polite and persistent interviews, asking very simple, logical questions about the Enda Kenny debacle. The poor Fine Gaeler had nowhere to hide. His leader and his party have become figures of fun.

Posted Date: 
7 October 2014

Dog days for our boys in blue: The Policing of Ireland

By: 
Vicky Conway - Irish Times

 

There is a depressing familiarity to the current policing scandals. It feels as if barely a week goes by that there is not some other twist or turn in the debacle that surrounds the Garda Síochána.

Posted Date: 
7 October 2014