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August 2011

‘Pipe’ director looks to screen award-winning gas film across US communities

By: 
Emigrant Online

Dear Editor,

I am the director of a documentary film on the community at the center of Shell's Corrib Gas Project in Co. Mayo, Ireland. In 2005, five local men were jailed for 94 days for stopping Shell from entering their land to lay a high pressure, raw gas pipeline. Since then, the small farming and fishing village of Rossport has been in turmoil, with hundreds of gardaí and private security deployed against a small community to force this natural gas project through against their will.

Posted Date: 
21 August 2011

Gannet oil leak down to just one barrel a day, Shell claims

By: 
Irish Times

LONDON – Britain’s worst oil spill for over a decade appeared to be entering its final stages yesterday, as the company said the volume still leaking was insignificant.

“The rate of leakage from the flowline to the Gannet platform continues to decline and currently stands at less than one barrel a day,” Glen Cayley, technical director of Shell’s European exploration and production activities, said yesterday. Shell also said a change in weather meant the oil on the surface had grown in size.

Posted Date: 
21 August 2011

Connemara wind farm permission overturned

By: 
RTE News

An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a large wind farm in east Connemara, overturning an earlier decision by Galway County Council.

The development at Lettermuckoo, Muckanaghkillew, would have comprised 27 wind turbines 139 metres tall, as well as access roads, electricity substations, cabling and control buildings.

The wind farm would have had the potential to produce enough electricity to supply almost 40,000 households with power each year, the equivalent of three quarters of households in Co Galway.

Posted Date: 
21 August 2011

Gardaí and Shell Security Work Hand in Hand Blocking Public Roads

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rossport solidarity camp

Monday 15th August at 9am a group of 12 people went down to Shell's compound in Aughoose to stop work. Eventually Shell's private security (IRMS) and the Gardaí began working together to police the roads and protect deliveries of equipment to the compound.

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18 August 2011

Shell's second oil leak in North Sea pipeline caused by relief valve

By: 
Fiona Harvey and Severin Carrell guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 August 2011 15.03 BST

 

Posted Date: 
16 August 2011

Images from UNEP Report on Shell Damage in Ogoniland Marked in Erris

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Images from http://www.shelltosea.com/content/unep-report-shell-damage-ogoniland-marked-erris

August 2011: Ballanaboy Gate 1 IRMS and Gardai working hand in hand

 

 

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16 August 2011

Shell tackles new oil pipe leak

By: 
Mirror, UK

Oil is continuing to spill from a pipe below a platform in the North Sea, days after operator Shell said the problem was under control.

An estimated 218 tonnes of oil - equal to about 1,300 barrels - has so far leaked from the pipe near the Gannet Alpha platform, about 112 miles east of Aberdeen.

An initial large leak was stopped on Thursday, but it has emerged that a smaller flow from the same source had been detected.

Posted Date: 
16 August 2011

Let's make Norway joint owner of our oil and gas

By: 
Fintan O'Toole - Irish Times

The State is about to sign away almost all our resources on terms by far the worst in the developed world

SOMETIMES, YOU have to consider extraordinary things. I want to suggest two of them at one go. The first is that the State is simply incapable of dealing with one of the key challenges and opportunities facing Irish people: getting the best for the Irish people from the potentially huge resources of oil and gas off our shores. The second is that we should therefore split those resources with a state that has proven its ability to manage this challenge for the maximum public benefit. That state is Norway. I am suggesting, in all seriousness, that we should give joint ownership of our oil and gas to the Norwegian state.

The first part of this proposition is the easiest to grasp. The official estimate of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources is that there are reserves of 6.5 billion barrels of oil and 20 trillion cubic feet of gas off the western seaboard – enough to meet our energy needs for a century. (This does not include southern waters, where significant gas fields already exist, or onshore resources.)

Posted Date: 
16 August 2011

UNEP Report on Shell Damage in Ogoniland Marked in Erris

By: 
Sparky - Indymedia

The UNEP recently issued a report detailing the destructive effects of decades of Shell oil production activities in Ogoniland in Nigeria.

The publication was marked in Erris County Mayo by a protest outside the gates of a newly constructed Shell gas refinery.The video also shows how routine violence against protesters has become.

 

Posted Date: 
15 August 2011