Dublin Shell to Sea

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.

The recent ruling by An Bord Pleanala that Shell's proposed onshore pipeline route through Glengad and Rossport is unsafe has raised new questions about the Corrib Gas project and has thrown the refinery's inland location into doubt.

Campaigners are making renewed calls for the Government to halt the project and hold an independent inquiry into all aspects of the project, including the controversial licensing terms. Under these terms, oil corporations will own 100 % of the oil and gas they extract from under Irish waters.

Wednesday, 18th November, 2009
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Buswell's Hotel, 26 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2
The Information Day will include:

Information packs will be available, containing:
- detailed facts, figures on Ireland's hydrocarbon reserves, incl. maps;
- the background to Ireland's giveaway licensing terms;
- the history of the campaign against Shell's inland refinery in Mayo;
- details of human rights abuses against campaigners;
- information about sources for further research.

Dublin Shell to Sea