March 2011

As the people of Ireland came out and voted to demolish Fianna Fail, Pat Carey ensured his party got their last nail in the coffin. On a day that Pat Carey the former Minister for Energy lost his seat in the Dail, and his party lost power he issued an order. With no mandate from the people he signed off the last section of the Corrib gas pipeline on the day of the general election. He gave the go-ahead to Shell to build infrastructure that will pump gas from the west coast to their interconnectors in Britain.

It has been revealed that the decade long resistance of the people of Erris to Shell's experimental gas pipeline has now wiped out Shell's projected profits from the project. Brian O’Cathain, the Managing Director of Enterprise Energy Ireland let the cat out of the bag at a debate at the IFI on the 4th December. Instead of the 650 million dollars the project was intended to cost, Shell & partners have now spent over 3 billion dollars.

ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGNERS have welcomed a ruling by the European Court of Justice reversing an Irish Supreme Court judgment which they say has serious implications for how Irish planning authorities assess major projects.

The European Court of Justice has issued a ruling in the case of the European Commission vs Ireland in which the court found that Ireland had failed to properly implement the EU’s environmental impact assessment directive in the case of major projects.

Protesters against Shell get in the way to stop work