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What Really Happened in Bellanaboy?

By: 
Gaz Barrett - BuckFast For Breakfast - November 11th, 2006

Following events in Rossport yesterday, a narrative has emerged of violent protests including the use of a car as a battering ram. Comments from contributors to this site have thrown accusations at Shell To Sea, accusing them of attacking ‘busloads of workers,’ ‘committing criminal damage,’ and possibly using a car as a ram to injure Gardai.

Labour critical of FF and FG stance on Corrib row

By: 
Lorna Siggins - Irish Times

Monday 13th Nov 2006

Labour Party president Michael D Higgins has criticised the Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny over their stance on the Corrib gas issue, and has said that the north Mayo community has "genuine grievances".

He said Bertie Ahern was "distorting the facts" in relation to planning approval for the complete project. He also said it was "simply wrong" to suggest that the Shell to Sea campaign had been "infiltrated".

A Knight in Oily Armour: Tony O’Reilly and Exxon Mobil

By: 
Tel - Indymedia

Back then, in 1983, O’Reilly was interviewed by American magazine Forbes, and outlined how his geologist selected six blocks of seabed and how Atlantic acquired the exploration rights for those blocks, saying ““Since I own 35 per cent of the newspapers in Ireland I have close contact with the politicians. I got the blocks he wanted.” 

Link: 

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/88795

Myth-making obscures realities of Corrib

By: 
William Hederman - IrishOilAndGas.com

Minister Noel Dempsey’s latest contribution to the debate over the Corrib Gas project is a claim that a fellow TD overheard a mobile phone conversation on Grafton Street in Dublin, in which the words “riot” and “Rossport” were allegedly heard. Previous outbursts by the Minister for Energy and Natural Resources have been dismissed by the Shell to Sea campaign as “unhelpful”. But this intervention is helpful. It highlights the lack of any meaningful attempt by the Government to resolve the conflict.

Link: 

http://irishoilandgas.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/myth-making-obscures-real...

Gas Lads - Indepth report from Magill (2002)

By: 
Sandra Mara - Magill

The politicians who sold Ireland's family silver in the great oil and gas give-away
The massive finds of oil and gas on our western seaboard could ensure Ireland's financial security for generations. Wealth approximating that of the Arab countries is within our grasp, but the Irish government seems content to sell off our birthright for a handful of votes and a few dollars.

Government rejects olive branch

By: 
Áine Ryan - Mayo News

Mayo News - 7th Nov 06
AN OLIVE branch by Shell to Sea to break the ongoing stalemate by establishing a public Commission of Enquiry into ‘the optimum development concept’ for the controversial Corrib gas project has been dismissed by Minister Noel Dempsey as containing ‘nothing new’ and by Shell as ‘unrealistic’. 

Link: 

http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=579&Ite...

Rossport 5 receive Award from Labour Leader

By: 
Labour Youth - Indymedia

The Tom Johnson summer school - the annual summer school of the Labour Party took place during the weekend in Kilkenny. This year the Jim Kemmy award was given to the community in Rossport and Erris and was accepted by Vincent McGrath of the Rossport Five. The Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte T.D. presented the award.

Link: 

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78210

Free offshore ride for Tony O’Reilly highlights total inadequency of offshore licencing terms

By: 
Colm Rapple - Irish Mail on Sunday

Independent Newspapers’ boss Tony O’Reilly has secured himself a free ride in an exploration venture off the west coast which will personally net him a 7% stake in oil and gas finds that could be worth over €20 billion according to some analysts.

Link: 

http://colmrapple.com/?p=17

Spoof - An Bord Pleanála Grants Planning Permission for Onshore Pipeline in Mayo

By: 
An Bord Pleanála - Indymedia

19th October 2009

An Bord Pleanála announces its decison today to grant planning permission with revised conditions to Shell E&P Ireland (SEPIL) for the construction of an onshore gas pipeline in Mayo.

Link: 

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94495

The Great Gas Giveaway - How the elites have gambled our health and wealth.

A 16 page booklet from AFRI written by Michael McGaughan and Andy Storey about the Great Gas Giveaway.

In it they state:

"An international study in 2002 found that only Cameroon took a lower share of the revenues from its own oil or gas resources than Ireland"

Link: 

http://www.afri.ie/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/The-Great-Gas-Giveaway_200...