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June 2016

Trial date to be set in Corrib gas safety case

By: 
The Connaught Telegraph

A TRIAL date will be decided next month for a case against two construction companies who have had charges brought against them following a fatal workplace incident almost three years ago at the Corrib gas tunnel project.

Judge Rory MacCabe, at a sitting of the Circuit Criminal Court in Castlebar today (Tuesday), put the case against BAM Civil Ltd. and Wayss and Freytag, Ingenieurbau AG back to July 8 for mention.

Proceedings are being brought against both companies following an investigation by the Health and Safety Authority into the tragedy.

Posted Date: 
22 June 2016
Link: 

http://www.con-telegraph.ie/news/roundup/articles/2016/06/21/4121893-tri...

New Book - Gas, Oil and the Irish State: Understanding the Dynamics and Conflicts of Hydrocarbon

By: 
Amanda Slevin

Interpreting the Corrib gas conflict as a microcosm of the Irish state's approach to hydrocarbon management, this study articulates environmental, health and safety concerns which underpin community resistance to the project.

Posted Date: 
22 June 2016
Link: 

http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784992743/

Inquiry urged into undercover British agent Mark Kennedy

By: 
Ciarán D'Arcy - Irish Times

Detective suspected of gathering intelligence on environmental groups for superiors in UK

Posted Date: 
20 June 2016
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/inquiry-urged-into-undercov...

Film Review – Atlantic

By: 
Jordan - jordanandeddie.wordpress.com

“Old ocean, none knoweth thy story; man cannot thy secrets unfold”

Posted Date: 
20 June 2016
Link: 

https://jordanandeddie.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/film-review-atlantic-2016/

Companies charged with workplace breaches following Corrib gas death

By: 
Edwin McGreal - Mayo News

Case is adjourned to Circuit Criminal Court on June 21

Two companies have been sent forward to the Circuit Criminal Court in Castlebar on charges following a workplace accident which resulted in the death of a man working on the Corrib gas tunnel in 2013. 
Twenty-six year old Lars Wagner was killed, in September 2013, while he was working on the construction of a tunnel for the Corrib gas project. 
Mr Wagner, a German native, was working on boring a tunnel to carry the project’s gas pipeline under Sruwaddacon Bay to the Corrib gas refinery at Bellenaboy. 
Two companies, BAM Civil Limited and Wayss and Freytag Ingenieurbau AG, were before Belmullet District Court today (Wednesday) where Judge Alan Mitchell was told each company was being sent forward to the Circuit Criminal Court. Each face three similar charges. 
The charges all relate to breaches of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 2005. 
Both companies were contracted by Shell to carry out the tunnel boring project in north Mayo. 

Posted Date: 
8 June 2016
Link: 

http://www.mayonews.ie/news/27969-companies-charged-with-workplace-breac...

Corrib companies charged over gas tunnel death

By: 
Lorna Siggins - Irish Times

Two construction firms face trial over fatal workplace incident at Co Mayo project

Two construction companies have had charges brought against them following a fatal workplace incident almost three years ago at the Corrib gas tunnel project in Co Mayo.

Posted Date: 
8 June 2016
Link: 

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/corrib-companies-charged-ov...

Construction companies charged over Mayo death

By: 
RTE News

Charges have been brought against two construction companies following a workplace accident that resulted in the death of a man in Co Mayo almost three years ago. 

German hydraulic technician Lars Wagner was killed while he was working on the Corrib Gas project in September 2013.

The 26-year-old was involved in the construction of a tunnel to carry a pipeline under Sruwaddacon Bay.

Posted Date: 
8 June 2016
Link: 

http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0608/794160-lars-wagner-corrib-gas-death/

Offshore licences ‘will boost Irish oil deals’

By: 
Geoff Percival - Irish Examiner

British exploration firm Europa Oil and Gas is hopeful of landing a development partner for licences it holds off the Irish coast before the end of the year.

The company was yesterday awarded four more licensing options, in three basins, in the final tranche of awards from the Government’s recent Atlantic Margin Licensing Round. It means the company now has seven licences in Irish waters.

[Shell to Sea]  The Giveaway continues - Listen to Mick Blakes song "The Giveaway" recently featured on the campaign CD - Glór Na hAoise

 

Posted Date: 
5 June 2016
Link: 

http://www.irishexaminer.com/business/offshore-licences-will-boost-irish...

2015 Atlantic Margin Oil and Gas Exploration Licensing Round - Phase 2 Awards

By: 
Dept of Energy & Natural Resources

Seán Kyne T.D., Minister of State for Natural Resources, today announced the offer of 14 new Licensing Options in the Irish offshore following the conclusion of the 2015 Atlantic Margin Licensing Round.
 

Posted Date: 
5 June 2016
Link: 

http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/news-and-media/en-ie/Pages/PressRelease/2015%20A...

Largest act of larceny against Irish people

By: 
Eddie Hobbs - Irish Examiner

We don’t own our natural resources under Article 10 of the Constitution. It needs to be repealed, but is there anyone with the bottle to take it on, asks Eddie Hobbs

Atlantic, narrated by the feral voice of Brendan Gleeson, is the second in a remarkable series of evocative films by Risteard O’Domhnaill who, starting with The Pipe, charted the story of Rossport tucked behind the dunes amid the sentinel cliffs of Erris Head and Broadhaven Bay.

Pulling the camera lens high above the dramatic coastline and its Corrib gas pipeline, Atlantic brings the audience the story of the North Atlantic itself and the battle between local and international corporations — a struggle, at its heart, between individuals and closely bound communities and those who are lobbied, in national government and in Brussels.

Posted Date: 
2 June 2016
Link: 

http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/eddie-hobbs-largest-act...