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December 2012

Hopes rise as exploration companies step up their activities off Irish coast

By: 
Barry O'Halloran - Irish Times

Despite mixed results in the past, exploration groups are once again planning to dip their toes into Irish waters

Oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil is due to begin exploratory drilling in the Porcupine Basin off the Republic’s southwest coast early in 2013.

The group will be one of the first “majors” to drill seriously in the State’s territorial waters since Shell began work on the Corrib gas field in the 1990s.

Posted Date: 
28 December 2012

Beneath it Devours

By: 
Clodagh O’Brien - The Galway Review

Inspired by the Shell to Sea campaign

 Unloveable Shell, the Goddess of Oil

Giants whirr and clank,

wrench earth by its roots

tear, clench, gouge

an artery –

an ocean wide.

 

Poisons seep

invade flesh to

arrest alveoli,

heavy with grief.

 

Over metal chatter

a hand of voices roar;

to impede the bully, secure

Posted Date: 
24 December 2012

Corrib final phase starts as Fionnuala digs subsea tunnel

By: 
Áine Ryan - Mayo News

 SIXTEEN years after the controversial Corrib gas field was discovered, the culmination of the project is now in sight as tunnelling for its final phase started  at Sruwaddacon Bay, in north west Mayo, over the weekend. The 4.9km tunnel will be the longest raw gas pipeline in western Europe and longer than Dublin’s port tunnel.

Posted Date: 
18 December 2012

Tunnelling work begins on Corrib gas onshore pipeline

By: 
Mayo Today

Tunnelling for the Corrib gas onshore pipeline has started successfully, Shell E&P Ireland (SEPIL) has confirmed. After 17 months of preparatory works, ‘Fionnuala’, the specially-designed tunnel boring machine (TBM), installed the first concrete ring in the segment-lined tunnel under Sruwaddacon Bay on Sunday morning last.  Construction of the 4.9km tunnel, which will carry part of the Corrib onshore pipeline, is expected to last approximately 15 months.

Posted Date: 
18 December 2012

Richard Boyd Barrett raises question of Oil and Gas Wealth with Taoiseach

By: 
Richard Boyd Barrett - TD

[Shell to Sea] Richard Boyd Barrett challenged Enda Kenny in the Dáil on the continuing oil and gas giveaway using figures from Shell to Sea's "Liquid Assets" which is available here

Richard Boyd Barrett TD, People Before Profit/United Left Alliance raises question of Oil and Gas Wealth with Taoiseach, Enda Kenny (Fine Gael) during Leaders Questions on Wednesday, 12th December 2012.

Posted Date: 
12 December 2012

Belmullet District Court Report - Shell and Mayo County Council stand co-accused of obstructing the public highway.

By: 
RSC - Indymedia

- Partners in crime try to avoid further embarrassment by settling with the plaintiff out of court -

Today in Belmullet district court Shell and Mayo County Council stood co-accused in a case for blocking the road during the disastrous attempt to deliver the Tunnel Boring Machine to Shell's tunnelling site at Aughoose in August this year. The co-accused settled out of court with the plaintiff and had the case struck out before the details were made public.

Posted Date: 
12 December 2012

Solidarity actions continue in Mayo against Shell's pipeline plans.

By: 
RSC - Indymedia

- Engineers blocked from entering tunnelling compound, landfall valve work disrupted.

Yesterday morning 8 campaigners from the Rossport Solidarity Camp blocked workers from entering Shells main work site for the Corrib Pipeline project for 2 hours. A second action later in the day halted work at the Glengad compound, where Shell are expanding their compound to build a landfall valve.

Posted Date: 
11 December 2012

Austerity Budget 2012 Key Points and Budget Protest

By: 
T - Indymedia

 Property taxes, PRSI increases, Children allowance cuts

Posted Date: 
7 December 2012

Fastnet sets out schedule for oil and gas fields

By: 
Barry O'Halloran - Irish Times

[Shell to Sea] The carve up of Ireland's oil and gas resources has quickened lately. Proof in this article how oil executives have just sat on oil finds made in the 1970's & 80's waiting for the right time.  See Padraig Campbell speak on his experience of the oil companies sitting on oil and gas finds here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLMLSAVZQzI

Posted Date: 
7 December 2012

Press Release: Shell to Sea highlight continued oil & gas giveaway despite expected budget cuts

Shell to Sea campaigners have gathered outside the Dáil today to highlight the government's policy of continuing the giveaway of our valuable oil and gas resources.