"The government has relinquished control over the offshore areas of our industry. Norway was tough regarding oil companies from the start. You now have an almost embarrassingly large pension fund. The situation for Irish communities, however, is as in Ogoniland in Nigeria - oil is a curse,”
Jim Farrell of Shell's private security force IRMS, likes his privacy but doesn't mind invading a whole community's privacy, who happen to live where Shell wish to run a refinery.

