Dublin Shell to Sea

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At the time of posting this last night’s programme (4th March) was not yet available online.  Will post a link here as soon as it is.  

Public talk in UCD
Thursday 18th February @ 5pm - Arts Block UCD Room 105
 
The Corrib gas refinery and pipeline has attracted varying levels of public attention over the past ten years, from support for the Rossport Five to national protests against the project, and most recently the decision by An Bord Pleanala that over half the proposed gas pipeline route is ‘unacceptable’ on safety grounds.
 

Vindication of the protesters has created the opportunity to find a political solution, but the Minister is spurning it, writes FINTAN O'TOOLE 
YOU MAY have seen or heard reports that an explosion in a natural gas pipeline, so large that people thought it was an earthquake, killed five people in Connecticut the weekend before last. This was an obvious hoax. It could not have happened.
Natural gas pipelines are completely safe, and people who think otherwise are headbangers, cranks and subversives.

 - Company to siphon billions more from Ireland thanks to corrupt gas deal -- 

Detailed information and research resources relating to Ireland's "giveaway" licensing terms for oil and gas exploration and all aspects of the Corrib Gas project will be presented at a media information day, Wednesday 18th November at Buswell's Hotel in Dublin.

The day will include a press conference at 12pm with Erris fisherman Pat O'Donnell and other Shell to Sea campaigners. Mr O'Donnell's fishing trawler was sunk last June by armed and masked men in the middle of the night.

Dublin Shell to Sea have produced 120,000 copies of a four page leaflet that explains all the facts behind the struggle with a particular focus on the Great Oil & Gas Giveaway.  These will be distributed all over Ireland in the next months, if you want some to distribute locally contact us.  You can read the text or download a PDF file of the leaflet on this page.

A Canadian-based firm, which claims to be "responsible", is to acquire Marathon's 18.5% share in the Corrib gas giveaway (1).  Marathon's share in the controversy-ridden Corrib gas project is to be sold on to Canadian firm Vermillion Energy Trust, which claims to "live and breathe" a motto of "excellence, trust, respect and responsibility every day".

Newstalk have put together this funny introduction to the scale of the Great Gas Giveaway, good for sending to family, friends and fellow workers

-- Irish navy facilitating multinational' s removal of Irish natural resources --
-- Rule of law suspended, arbitrary arrests increase, Garda harassment intensifies --

Warships and other Irish navy vessels today escorted the world's largest pipe-laying ship, the Solitaire, into Broadhaven Bay in north Mayo, where it will attempt to lay part of the offshore section of the Corrib Gas pipeline. The community around Shell's operations is now besieged and intimidated by hundreds of Gardaí, Shell security and naval vessels, all in the cause of giving away Irish gas to multinational companies.

Revolt Video's production on the Erris struggle that focuses on the 'Great Gas ripoff' that has allowed Shell to get its hand on the gas without paying a cent in royalties.  Looks at the political process by which the first royalties were waived by politicans and then even the corporate tax rate was dropped.  Filmed at the time of the 2008 failed visit of the Solitare so it then moves on to footage and interviews from that period.