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August 2010

Resistance continues as Shell to Sea campaigner freed after 118 days in prison

By: 
Andrew - WSM

A still defiant Shell to Sea campaigner, Niall Harnett, has been released after spending 118 days in Castlerea prison. On his release Niall announced that "I am going straight back to the Rossport Solidarity Camp to be with my fellow activists and Shell to Sea friends in the local community. We seem to bring out the best in each other, unlike Shell and the Irish government, who bring out the worst in each other."  Niall's release today means that for the first time in many months no Shell to Sea campaigners are in prison, however resistance to Shell still continues in Erris.

Corrib Gas Project: very nervous about being specific on paper about landfall or pipeline routes

By: 
John Donovan - Royal Dutch Shell plc

Another leaked internal email from the Corrib Gas Project supplied by the “Celtic Tiger 5″ group of dissident Shell employees. Ancient but revealing.

From: McGoldrick John
Sent: 07 January 2000 16:39
To: Adlam, John; Easey John; Simpson Mike; Steen Rosemary
Subject: RE: Corrib – Design Basis for Commerciality Review

Drill huggers stop Shell's drilling work

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Yesterday people from the local community of Pullathomas and Rossport and Solidarity campers lead by the rousing sound of a visiting bagpiper and drummer, returned to one of Shell's drilling rigs, gaining access at low tide across the exposed sand bars of Sruwaddacon bay. On arriving at the rig a number of people surrounded the drill casing and danced around it before forming a tight huddle to prevent any further work occurring. Meanwhile others held a large banner and occupied the area while children played in the sand.

MORE CORRIB GAS PROJECT LEAKED INTERNAL EMAILS

By: 
John Donovan - Royal Dutch Shell plc

MORE CORRIB GAS PROJECT INTERNAL EMAILS SUPPLIED BY A MEMBER OF THE “CELTIC TIGER 5″ – A CLAIMED GROUP OF DISSIDENT SHELL EMPLOYEES

 

From: Grant David
Sent: 29 September 1999 13:58
To: Jones Ifor
Subject: RE: Corrib Well Fluid Analysis

Lambo

Arrests after attempts to disrupt gas work

By: 
The Connaught Telegraph

Files are being prepared for the DPP following the latest attempts to disrupt the work being done to pump ashore natural gas from the Corrib gas field.
Protesters disrupted exploratory drilling in preparation for bringing the gas ashore at Sruwaddacon Bay last Thursday week and gardai had to be called in to allow workmen to continue the ground testing.
Four people with addresses in London and Nottingham and another from Wales were arrested along with two with Irish addresses.

Corrib offshore embarrassing obstacle on the seabed

By: 
John Donovan - Royal Dutch Shell plc

LATEST LEAKED SHELL INTERNAL EMAIL FROM ILL-FATED CORRIB GAS PROJECT IN IRELAND

From:     Scott, Hugh H SUKEP-EPE-T-WM
Sent:    31 July 2006 11:02
To:    Gillespie, Colynn M SUKEP-EPT-IT-ED; Read, St.John MS SEPIL-EPE-T-IP
Subject:additional debris on seabed

Colynn, St John,

Community walk brings Shell drilling work to a standstill in Sruwaddacon Estuary

By: 
Shell to Sea

Shell & Gardaí powerless against community action

Yesterday morning forty people from around Sruwaddacon Estuary brought Shell’s survey work in the area to a complete standstill. The community walked out onto the mudflats at low tide to assert their cockle-picking rights and disrupt Shell’s borehole drilling survey.

At around 11.30am people converged at Aughoose and walked down a public right of way onto the mudflats. The group walked to one of the two jack-up barges and prevented drilling by walking underneath the platform. IRMS - Shell’s private security firm – tried to block their free passage but the people prevailed and walked where they pleased. Three people scaled the legs of the barge and occupied them for about four hours. One person chained himself to the one of the drill-shafts in order to stop the work.

Community Walk Out
Community Walk Out

Health crisis no accident

By: 
Gerry Casey - Letter to the Western People

SIR – Your editorial (August 3) rightly expresses concern over HSE plans to slash services at Mayo General Hospital and the health service in general.

Our health service is in crisis, a deliberately manufactured crisis. What has happened in recent years has been the systematic stripping down of services from hospitals around the country.

OECD responds to community complaints about Corrib

By: 
Áine Ryan - Mayo News

AN INQUIRY by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) into complaints about the Corrib gas project last week found that Shell has ‘shown a willingness to address health and safety concerns, of which the revised route for the onshore part of the pipeline seems the clearest proof’.

Gormley accused of FF-style double-speak

By: 
Stewart Reddin - Letters to the Irish Examiner

ON August 4 the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, John Gormley, issued a directive, under EU regulations on birds and natural habitats, aimed at protecting special areas of conservation and special protected areas from potential damage and disturbance caused by quad bikes and scramblers.

Quite rightly the minister insisted that people should be allowed to "find recreation in the enjoyment of undisturbed nature".