"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,”
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- Just how bad is Ireland's Oil and Gas deal - Shell to Sea
- Now you are talking my language - Michael McGaughan
- Another gas terminal for Bellanaboy - Daniel Hickey
- Corrib and the art of bog building - James Laffey
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Maura Harrington speaking to Norwegian newspaper, Aftenbladet
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Shell's planned tunnel
The tunnel which Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan signed off on the Foreshore Licence for Shell is planned to run under Sruwaddacon Estuary which is designated a Special Area of Conservation.
Shell's planned tunnel:
- 4.9 kilometers long
- 4.2 meters in diameter
- 15 months of tunnelling
- 24 hour a day tunnelling
- 472 truck movements a day at peak construction
- 68,000 m3 of material removed
- 2.5 km of 3m high fencing