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September 2012

‘Desmond Tutu loves Mary Robinson’

By: 
Áine Ryan - Mayo News

[Shell to Sea]  See the report on the Shell to Sea protest at the launch of Mary Robinson's memoirs here.  At the end of this article it states  "Referring to a Shell to Sea protest outside the centre on her arrival, she said,  that due to her role as an Iar-Uachtarán, she would not comment on matters that may come before the Oireachtas.

Posted Date: 
25 September 2012

€ 1.6 trillion oil and gas profits ‘lost to Ireland’

By: 
Keith Bourke, Western People

A report by the Shell to Sea campaign group has claimed that taxpayers stand to lose out on 1.6 trillion in oil and gas profits. “Several international studies have found that the share of revenue Ireland receives is among the lowest in the world, less than half of that of comparable countries,” said the report, Liquid Assets, which has been compiled by Dublin Shell to Sea.

Posted Date: 
25 September 2012

State will not benefit enough from oil, gas finds

By: 
Monica Muller - Letter to the Irish Examiner

Re Matt Cooper’s article (Sept 4) on oil and gas in Ireland disregarded the facts: there is no State ownership or State participation in oil and gas resources in Ireland — the commodity can and will be sold by the licence holders to whomever they wish and at market price.

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23 September 2012

Shell instructed Corrib Gas Project supplier to falsify invoices?

By: 
John Donovan - RoyalDutchShellPLC.com

 

By John Donovan

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18 September 2012

Mary Robinson: ‘Everybody matters’ ...but the people of Erris

By: 
Mary - RSC - Indymedia

 - Campaigners highlight Robinson's silence on human rights in County Mayo -

Last night Enda Kenny met with Mary Robinson for an evening soiree in Ballina Arts Centre to launch her new book. The title of her memoir, ‘Everybody Matters’ was a ironic reminder of the silence maintained by Robinson on the human rights abuses associated with Shell’s Corrib Gas project. Since 2002 Shell have been operating less than 35 miles away from her home in Ballina and over that time human rights concerns have been documented by international human rights organisations including Frontline Defenders (“Breakdown of Trust: a Report on the Corrib Gas Dispute http://ww.frontlinedefenders.org/files/en/corrib_gas_re...t.pdf).

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Campaigners from Shell to Sea and Rossport Solidarity Camp travelled to the launch to highlight Robinson’s continuing silence on human rights issues in her home county, but were refused entry to the Arts centre for the event by Gardaí. Ten campaigners held a picket outside the event holding placards which read, ‘What about human rights on your doorstep?’, ‘Mary Robinson – human rights N.I.M.B.Y’, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’, ‘Mary – what about human rights in Mayo?’, and ‘And you used to be so good!!’

Posted Date: 
18 September 2012

Energy Regulation chairman regrets gas price increase approval

By: 
RTE

[Shell to Sea]  The Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) in 2011 admitted that energy price rises would be ‘very likely’ if the gas from the Corrib field comes ashore.

Posted Date: 
18 September 2012

Robinson home open to public

By: 
Tom Shiel - Irish Times

[Shell to Sea] With a special human rights research facility maybe Mary Robinson will finally get around to learning or mentioning the human rights of people effected by Shell's Corrib Gas project. 

New centre to honour former Irish president: THE BIRTHPLACE in Ballina, Co Mayo, of former president and UN high commissioner for human rights Mary Robinson is to be transformed into a visitor centre and research facility in the fields of human rights and women’s leadership.

Posted Date: 
18 September 2012

First find the oil, and then raise the taxes

By: 
Sunday Independent

[Shell to Sea] Please be advised that the Tony O Reilly who is a significant shareholder in the Sunday Independent, also owns oil & gas exploration company Providence Resources. The point argued in this article is dealt with page 10 of "Liquid Assets"

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16 September 2012

Our oil and gas might as well be off the coast of Brazil for all the good it will do us

By: 
William Hederman - Irish Daily Mail

 Comment piece by William Hederman published in today’s Irish Daily Mail (10 September 2012)

The dogs in the street now understand that Ireland’s share of revenue from our oil and gas fields is set to be pitifully small, thanks to terms handed down by Ray Burke. It’s no longer just campaigners who want change. In May an Oireachtas committee with a majority of Government TDs issued a report calling for the terms to be radically overhauled.

The oil companies are desperate to maintain the status quo. They defend their corner mainly by portraying our offshore as a lonely wasteland, where exploration is almost non-existent and where finding oil or gas is but a remote possibility. Our “attractive” terms (the world’s most generous to the oil companies) must be maintained until Ireland is a “proven territory”, they insist.

Posted Date: 
14 September 2012