Posts under ‘Irish Times’

Opinion: Shell, with its enthusiastic embrace of fracking, has a credibility problem ‘Shell faces up to climate change challenge” ran the headline in this paper last week. I wish it were true but the company has a credibility problem when it comes to the issue. It is betting everything on the presumption that we will [...]

Shell to Sea spokeswoman Maura Harrington said “Shell, despite all their talk of being ‘good neighbours’, said nothing to anyone” until the radio station was alerted. Shell said the accidental severing of a gas pipe at its plant at Ballinaboy, Co Mayo, posed “no danger to the environment” and the company was investigating the circumstances. [...]

Members of the Irish police force, perhaps fueled by an alleged flood of free booze funded by Shell, smuggled across the border at Shell’s behest, have been accused of using excessive violence against Corrib gas pipeline protestors. By John Donovan Shell has had more than ample time to deny the allegations that it used an [...]

European Commission questions State licensing of seismic surveys Complaint lodged by Irish Whale and Dolphin Group Tuesday 2 April 2013 The European Commission has asked the Government to explain why seismic surveying currently under way off the west coast is not subject to the requirements of EU directives on environmental impact. It has also asked [...]

The Irish Times – Tuesday, November 27, 2012 GORDON DEEGAN The rising bill on the controversial Corrib Gas project is to top almost €3 billion before the end of next year, new figures show. The company driving the project, Shell EP Ireland Ltd yesterday confirmed that the Corrib Gas Partners last year spent a further [...]

Garda guide for Corrib protests proposed ÁINE RYAN A human rights report on the policing of the controversial Corrib gas project has recommended that the Department of Justice publish a guide defining methods that may be legitimately used by An Garda Síochána during protests. The report on the Corrib Human Rights Monitoring Initiative states this [...]

FROM OUR SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE: ON THIS DAY IN 2005 Irish Times: Shell denies fears over loss of consents “It is 80 days since five sincere men of principle were jailed by Shell. Talks, not imprisonments, will resolve this impasse that has exposed the unhealthy state of our democracy.” Posted Sunday 18 Sept 2005 Lorna [...]

FROM OUR SEPT 2005 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE Irish Times: Jailed protesters made their point, says Taoiseach “…Bertie Ahern has said the five Mayo men imprisoned for contempt of court in connection with their opposition to the proposed Corrib gas pipeline have made their point and it is beyond him why they wish to remain in [...]

The Irish Times – Monday, August 20, 2012 FRANK McDONALD, Environment Editor THE GOVERNMENT would “become the shoeshine boy of the [shale gas] industry” if it allowed fracking to take place anywhere in Ireland, according to the Nigerian human rights activist who heads Friends of the Earth International. Nnimmo Bassey said Ministers “should not be [...]

The Irish Times – Friday, August 17, 2012 LORNA SIGGINS, Western Correspondent SHELL TO Sea says it has received “further evidence” of monitoring of campaigners opposed to the Corrib gas project by a private security company. The group has released scans of pages from two notebooks, which it says comprises notes taken by security staff [...]

The Irish Times – Saturday, August 11, 2012 LORNA SIGGINS, Western Correspondent THE COMPANY which provides security for the Corrib gas project in Co Mayo has said it is working “to the highest standards”. Integrated Risk Management Services (IRMS) was responding to disclosure of a company “situation report”, recording movements at a protest camp located [...]

Rossport protesters under 24-hour surveillance by private security firm Friday, August 10, 2012 LORNA SIGGINS, Western Correspondent OPPONENTS OF the Corrib gas project in north Mayo are seeking legal advice on a communication that indicates the Rossport solidarity camp is under 24-hour surveillance by a private security company. The communication involves a “situation report” that [...]

FROM OUR AUGUST 2005 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE… Irish Times: FG leader wants TD to apologise for office picket “The five men in Cloverhill face into their sixth week in prison, with no sign of any breakthrough due to Shell’s insistence on building an onshore terminal and its refusal to lift the injunction against north Mayo [...]

FROM OUR AUGUST 2005 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE… Irish Times: Ministers can’t play both sides in key projects “The dispute between Shell and the residents of north Mayo spilled over into the British papers last week. With the clarity that observing something from a distance allows, the story was distilled down to the company being ordered [...]

The Irish Times – Tuesday, August 7, 2012 AOIFE RYAN HUMAN RIGHTS group Action from Ireland (Afri) has criticised both the Garda Síochána and Shell over “the bungled transport” of a huge tunnelling machine. As reported widely, a 170-tonne lorry transporting the Shell machine to bore the sub-sea tunnel linking raw gas to an inland [...]