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SHELL TO SEA BUDGET PRESS RELEASE
Royal Dutch Shell to go to Trial for Complicity in Torture and Murder of Nigerian Protesters
Hugh explosion after gas pipeline ruptured in APPOMATTOX, USA
Ministers in Mayo for Corrib talks
Shell-to-Sea cry foul play as Facebook page deleted
Shell asked for named inspector not to hear appeal
Shell to Sea Meets Ministers Ryan and Ó Cuív – Nothing New From Government
Fresh rises in energy prices signalled
Shell To Sea press release - Sunday 28th Sept 2008
Ministers meet locals on Corrib project
Ministers to meet Mayo groups on Corrib gas
Igbini flays Shell over illegal detention of journalists
Community call for Corrib dialogue
Brockovich urges Shell to reroute gas pipeline in Ireland
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Willie Corduff: Winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize 2007.
(the world's largest prize honoring grassroots environmentalists.)
Willie's profile on the Goldman Award page
The Goldman Environmental prize
Ken Sara-Wiwa winner in 1995 : Executed over his opposition to Shell's activities in Ogoniland in the Niger delta.
Shell announces profits
€19.5 billion per annum
€375 million per week
€53.5 million a day
€2.25 million per hour
Send Shell to Sea = €360 million
(Less than a weeks profit!)
Benefits to Ireland = €0
Winners;
Shell, Statoil, Marathon
Losers:
Local community
Citizens of Ireland
Independent report says pipeline project is flawed:
Download CPI report pdf
Corrib gas will be traded at international market price.
So will it make any difference to the price Irish people pay for gas?
'No it won't' - The head of Bord Gáis Energy Supply, David Bunworth.
Five Seven Live (Fri 21st Jul 06)
Fact sheets
Brochures
The Irish Times On-Line Poll: Is Shell's Corrib Gas project good for the local community?
NO = 84%
YES = 16% follow link for details
Nuacht RTÉ/TNS mrbi Poll. September 2006.
6 out of 10 people in Mayo want Corrib Gas terminal located offshore at sea. Read the report
Quotes for the day
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.
"Fr Sean Noone, parish priest of Pollathomas, fears for the future. "The opponents, portrayed as baddies by Shell, are the prophets when it comes to our environment," he says. "
"the practice of "flaring off" excess gas, has damaged many peoples' health"
"Ever since the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists in 1995, this region has been seething with anger. Saro-Wiwa had been fighting against environmental degradation of his native Ogoniland by the Shell oil company." John Egan - BBC journalist - April 1999 Crossing Continents program for the BBC
John Egan now External Affairs Manager Shell E & P
"I am becoming sick and tired of lying..." Shell executive Mr Van de Vijver (Read how Shell misled its investors)
"We depend on fishing and farming, and to take that away from us — it’s genocide. If you take away our land, and then you pollute the water and so on, it’s just saying we don’t have any right to live." Ken Saro-Wiwa
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Washington politicians, lobby groups pledge support to Rossport campaigner"
"I don't think any company, even Shell, umh, will introduce expensive safety measures unless they have to" Christy Loftus - Shell's Communications Officer in Mayo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfNGwlaNIg&NR (Those Who Dance - Part 2 of 5 - timeline 07:54)
"First you came and tried to take our land.
Then when that didn't work you put 5 of our men to jail.
Then when that didn't work you brought in 200 gardaí and beat us into the drains and ditches"
Moving response by local resident P.J.Moran to Shell at the EPA oral hearing April 2007.
'Ireland should not negotiate away it's environment
for the sake of a few jobs..''
Dr Owens Wiwa,
brother of of executed Nigerian poet Ken Saro Wiwa
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,then they fight you, then you win. "
Gandi
"We do not seek conflict, we know the strength of the forces arrayed against us. Know that because of them we can only use peaceful means, but we are determined that justice will be done!"
Mohandas K. Gandi
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein
Explosions:
Nigeria pipe fire kills 100 ... read details here
Major gas explosion at Shell refinery (Bacton, Norfolk)
"Jean Smith, who lives about half a mile from the plant in Kimberley Road, said she heard an explosion about 6pm and saw a ball of smoke followed by flames.
She said: "We heard a bang, like a plane going through the sound barrier. The place shook and we looked out to see a ball of black smoke above the plant."Then all the alarms went off up there."
The Guardian - Major Gas Explosion
BBC News - Major gas terminal blaze put out
BBC News - Gas terminal blaze investigated
Saudi gas pipeline fire kills 28 follow this link
Gas distribution pipe line exploded in Germany (100bar pressure)
Read the full report & watch the video news of gas explosion
Our Gas Our National Interest (O.G.O.N.I.)
'No other country in the world has given such favourable terms as ireland...' Mike Cunningham, former Statoil director, Ireland.
"Time to impose windfall profits tax on Shell’s Corrib find as Government plans to give away all of the Rockall offshore area" says Colm Rapple - Economist and Journalist
"... But despite spiralling energy prices there is no sign of the Government moving to harden the licence terms to ensure that we get a fairer share of the gas and oil that is undoubtedly under the sea bed. Yet this is the time to both demand more from new licensees and to introduce a windfall tax on the existing Corrib find off the Mayo coast." ... Read Colm's full article here
"Commission officials told the Oireachtas Committee on Energy that recent "softening" in world oil and gas prices would have a "minor" effect on projected price increases.
They also warned that the coming on stream of gas from the Corrib field off Co Mayo could lead to higher, rather than lower, prices for consumers because of the cost attached to the current supply infrastructure." ...read the Irish Times article here
SHELL TO SEA BUDGET PRESS RELEASE
Monday 13th October 2008-10-12
Let Shell and its partners feel some pain in Budget 2008.
Shell to Sea calls on Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan to re-introduce royalty payments on all oil/gas exploration companies operating in Ireland as the only way of ensuring a consistent flow of Revenue to the State from this activity. This would be the first step in the process of regaining control over our own natural resources.
Future liquidity of this country depends on the proper control and management of its assets. Now is the time to regain control and ownership of the country’s oil and gas for the benefit of everybody living in Ireland.
Any change in Corporation Tax rates for exploration companies (as recently introduced by Green Party Minister Eamon Ryan) can and will be neutralised through exploration programmes, transfer pricing and entity splitting.
Successive Finance Acts implement fiscal policy. In the current and future severe economic conditions there can be no excuse for allowing oil/gas exploration companies to continue making obscene profits immune from taxation while ordinary people are expected to take all the pain.
Contact for verification: Spokesperson Maura Harrington +353 87 959 1474
October 2008:
Royal Dutch Shell to go to Trial for Complicity in Torture and Murder of Nigerian Protesters:
“We are looking forward to finally bringing Shell into court, where we will prove their role in the torture and murder of our clients and their pattern of human rights abuses,” said CCR attorney Jennie Green. “It’s time for our clients and their families to see justice.” Read full article here
Afri Hedge School 2008: 'Pipelines and Profits: People under pressure - From 24th to 26th October 08
See event details hereSeptember 2008:
Massive Gas pipeline explosion in Virginia, USA
Shell To Sea press release 28th Sep. 08
Diary of Maura Harrington on hunger strike
Read the Irish Times (11th Sep. 08) story here
August 2008:
Build up of Irish States resources against local community peacefully protesting against Shells plan to build gas and oil industry in rural community of Erris
The Battle for Glengad Beach over the summer of 2008 ...more details here
"Naval sources speaking to the Mayo Echo have said they are concerned that they are being used to police protesters, and that they are concerned that a nuclear-powered British Royal Navy submarine is positioned approximately 11 miles off the coast of Mayo" ...read full article here
"This is the first time we have been used against civilian protesters, says Navy as gunboat is sent to protect Broadhaven Bay pipeline" ... Daily Irish Mail Saturday 30th Aug 2008
Shell To Sea Flotilla 
LE Orla, a 39-man warship, brought into Broadhaven Bay at request of Gardaí
" AN INTERNAL report from a senior Government ecologist to officials at Environment Minister John Gormley's department has severely criticised the environmental impact statement (EIS) prepared by Shell in its planning application to build a controversial gas pipeline in Mayo." ...read the article here
Anniversary of the September 2003 Landslides:
Recent heavy rainfall in Glengad/Pollatomish area leads locals to call on Environment Minister to halt heavy excavation works by Shell at the foot of Dooncarton Mountain (Glengad - site of previous landslide Sep. 2003) amid fears of fresh landslides: ...fear of fresh landslides in North Mayo
Pollatomish Landslide 19th Sep. 2003
Dooncarton Mountain after 40 individual landslides on 19th September 2003
Recent bogslide near Corrib gas site-related work: ESB confirms bog slide near Corrib gas site-related work
Pollatomish /Glengad landslide 19th Sept. 2003: Read related articles here
"...pod of dolphins within Broadhaven Bay was herded away by a speed boat hired to work on the Corrib gas project." ...from article in Irish Times
July 2008:
Willie Corduff: Winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize 2007 and 12 others were arrested at Glengad 23rd July 2008
Thursday 24th July: "This morning (at approximately 8:00am over 40 gardaí, who are now stationed in the Shell compound, and 70 Shell specialist security forced the local community from a section of Glengad beach so that Shell could erect 10ft high fencing about 40ft down onto the beach. " ...full story here
Yet another oversight!
MINISTER FOR Energy Eamon Ryan has acknowledged an "oversight" in failing to publish latest authorisations for work on the Corrib gas project. ...read story here
Shell surveillance:
"PARISH PRIEST in north Mayo claims he has been monitored by Shell’s extensive security arrangements at a location where work on the controversial project is ongoing." ...read the full story here "parishioners ‘prisoners in their own area’" "registration of his car had been noted and, moreover, he believed he had also been photographed by security officials at Ballyglass harbour."
Mayo family complains over Shell surveillance
Shell security filming on Glengad public beach: Local musician and resident of Glengad says:""We object to our grandchildren being filmed while walking and paddling, and we will be seeking to have this footage returned to us,"
Mayo family complains over Shell surveillance - The Irish Times Monday 14th July 08
Glengad family ‘tormented’ by Shell surveillance - The Mayo News - Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Community outrage as Shell films children on public beaches - The Mayo Echo - wed. 16th July 08
Irish Shell is accused of video surveillance activity by a Mayo family - RTE Radio 1 - Pat Kenny show 15th July 08 Follow the link to Today with Pat Kenny - Go to time line 03:33
More coverage on the Pat Kenny show re Shell's surveillance of Glengad and the public beach. Local journalist confirms Shell surveillance - 16th July 08
New Rossport Solidarity Camp website: http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.110mb.com/
The hypocrisy of Shell:
Shell posts a notice on the beach at Glengad pretending to care about nesting sand martins. Next to it is a photograph of a dead sand martin which had exhausted itself trying to get into its nest that Shell had covered with a net. 
Glengad public beach: Netted by Shell to stop the sand martins nesting
" "Most bird species are protected under the Wildlife Acts, barring those regarded as pest species, and those considered as game species (where they may be hunted under conditions). Under the Wildlife (Amendment) Act, 2000 it is an offence to disturb their breeding or resting place".
This is a quote from the recent pipeline planning application that Shell (& RPS) have given in to An Bord Pleanala ... read the article
Recent News:
"Mayo residents' group lodges formal complaint against Shell to OECD" ...read the full article here
Shell has bought a share in the commonage in Rossport: ... read the full story here
Mayo County Council and the Shell haulage route (L1202) ...updated report 10/7/08
This is as far as Mayo County Council can go with the road works to facilitate the haulage route for Shell.
Since Shell paid Mayo County Council €3 million euro to widen the road from Bellanaboy to Glengad to facilitate Shell trucks and machinery going to the Landfall site at Glengad, the following environmental destruction has been visited on the local villages along the haulage route:
Landslides - resulting in road closures and loss of electricity to local villages for more than 24 hours
Mayo C.C. continue to buldoze local opinion and dismiss their complaints ... read details here
Complete destruction of hedgerows and wildlife habitat (despite legislation which prohibits such work except in March and August)
Pollution of feeder streams to Sruth Fada Conn bay (SAC). North Western Fisheries Board warned the council not to silt streams and rivers
A letter from the North Western Regional Fisheries Board to the Secretary of Mayo County Council dated 31st January 2008 specifically warned of the potential for release of silt during road works.
To read the full story from planning proposal to present day environmental disaster ... read full article here
Friday 6th June 08: 100's of letters of objection to Ministerial consent being given to Shells proposed application to construct a natural gas pipeline were handed in to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, in Dublin.
"Mayo residents' group lodges formal complaint against Shell to OECD" ...read the full article here
Shell has bought a share in the commonage in Rossport: ... read the full story here
This is as far as Mayo County Council can go with the road works to facilitate the haulage route for Shell.
Since Shell paid Mayo County Council €3 million euro to widen the road from Bellanaboy to Glengad to facilitate Shell trucks and machinery going to the Landfall site at Glengad, the following environmental destruction has been visited on the local villages along the haulage route:
Bog Fire: If it takes 4 days to extinguish a bog fire 10 km from Shell's controversial refinery at Bellanaboy, what chance do residents have if an explosion or major fire were to occur? ...read about the bog fire here Shell EP Ireland is unable to give details of its emergency plan.
European Parliament Petitions Committee to discuss the Corrib gas issue on Monday 26th May 2008 ... full details here
Pictures from the AFRI Famine Walk 2008 ...click here
Shell erect netting on public beach (SPA & SAC) to prevent birds nesting on the cliffs during construction work: "Labour Party president Michael D Higgins has questioned the legality of the netting, and said it would appear that Shell contractors were “playing fast and loose with the EU Birds Directive”." ...read the article here EU Birds directive
US human rights monitor examines Garda action at Rossport ...see report here "The Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission wrote to Justice Minister Brian Lenihan regarding a possible examination of the management of incidents protest, but the minister did not feel it was appropriate to proceed." ... read the story here
"A PROPOSAL by the Garda Ombudsman Commission that it examine the handling of protests over the Corrib gas project should be reconsidered by Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern, according to Denny Larson, director of US-based Global Community Monitor." ... read the article here
" LEGISLATION passed by the Government more than six years ago to facilitate the Corrib gas onshore pipeline was flawed" ... read full article here
NO CONSENT from locals so Shell resort to another land grab in Rossport using Compulsory Acquisition Orders (CAOs) on commonage for new pipeline route ... read the article here
Shell/RPS can't get community consent for shortlisted pipeline routes ...read article
Double standards again applied to Shell: An Bord Pleanála say it's OK to build a road without permission on a SAC ...read article
EPA grants Shell licence to pollute: Read article
It is left to Shell to Sea to stop Shell drilling in an SAC - Who is responsible for monitoring Shell?
The Irish Times - Lorna Siggins - Monday, November 5, 2007
Corrib Consents 'errors' !
read full story
Shell had no consent to drill on SAC
Shell To Sea delegation hands letter from Kilcommon parish priests to Minister Read letter
Shell consultants can't enter private lands ...read article
Shell private security imprison and detain peaceful protester on public beach at Glengad. Glengad security firm revealed
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Events
Solidarity Protest - Dublin - Shell head office -52 Lwr Leeson Street 1PM - 15 September '08
Solidarity Protest - London - Allseas Office - Albemarle St, Soho W1- 12Noon - 15 September '08
Vigil outside the Shell Headquarters on Leeson Street at 5.30PM - 11 September '08
Solidarity protest at the GPO on OConnell Street at 6.30PM - 11 September '08
Dublin Shell to Sea meeting tonight 7pm at Connolly Books, Temple Bar. - 26 August '08
Weekend Beach Party to Reclaim Glengad Public Beach - 09 August '08
Official Book launch: The Price of our Soul – Gas, Shell and Ireland - 10 July '08
Afri famine walk 2008 - From Doolough to Louisburgh, Co. Mayo - 17 May '08
GCM Director Denny Larson on policing of environmental protests - Liberty Hall, 7pm - 15 May '08
Protest at Shell/Topaz station, Finglas - 12 noon Saturday - 26 April '08
MAOR ENERGY FORUM FORTNIGHT - DERRY, March 31st- April 12th - 31 March '08
Protest: 12.15 at Shell station, Glasnevin, Finglas Road Dublin 11 - 29 March '08
Annual Good Friday solidarity walk at Rossport - 21 March '08
Bring the pipe back to Shell - 17 March '08
Shell to Sea public Meeting - ATGWU Hall - Dublin - 7pm - 13 March '08