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Gas pipeline won't help Mayo; No Jobs For All; National Issue
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Sunday July 23, 2006 15:56 by Shell to Sea c/o 134 Phibsborough Road Dublin 7 o87 132 3369
Shell to Sea Letters to the Sunday Times
An article published in the Sunday Times last week recounted the ending of the mediation, when Peter Cassells wrote to the Rossport Five to say he could find no basis for a settlement between the consortium of multi-national companies who want to force a dangerous experimental pipeline through Rossport and the five men, who with their families, friends and supporters have campaigned for the gas from the Corrib field to be processed offshore. The article was broadly factual, while showed a tendency to look at the situation from the point of view of big business and government, which is of course to be expected form a newspaper like the ST.
What was interesting was an editorial published in the same edition, which tried to present as fact a complete misrepresention of the controversial pipeline/refinery scheme,while attempting to smear the campaign against it as a local dispute which had been "hijacked' by Sinn Féin.
Below are the letters sent in to counteract these views.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-2281362.html
Letters to the Editor:
GAS PIPELINE WON"T HELP MAYO
You suggest Mayo will lose out if the current difficulties with the Corrib gas pipeline are unresolved (Editorial, last week). While I agree that aspects of the protest have unfortunately been hijacked, I find it difficult to embrace the supposed benefits suggested by Shell and echoed by yourselves and our own local authority.
Yes there has been some short-term employment and windfalls for local construction works. Some landowners have been compensated for access to their lands and will continue to receive ground rent after the project’s completion. Shell says 30 to 50 jobs will be created at the Bellanaboy terminal, and it has contributed to the coffers of Mayo county council for the upgrading of a stretch of road on which thousands of tonnes of peat are being transported for the clearing of the Bellanaboy site.
But for the majority, the pipeline is merely passing through our county taking gas to other parts of the country without being piped to any of our own towns or fuelling any local industry. The most tangible evidence of the pipeline’s progress are the miles of potholed roads.
Peter Jordan
Castlebar, Co Mayo
NO JOBS FOR ALL
Your prediction of “hundreds” of jobs is off by, well, several hundred. Operation of the terminal requires 60 staff working three shifts, which would explain the facility’s car park having only 25 spaces. As most of these positions will be highly specialised, few will be filled by Mayo residents.
The stalemate is not due to new and extravagant demands by the Shell to Sea campaign group. Moving the refinery offshore has always been its primary goal. As reports by Advantica and the Centre for Public Inquiry show, the pipeline is too dangerous to be acceptable. You label protesters as “left-wingers” and other dastardly terms. Support for Shell to Sea spans virtually all Irish political parties. Support comes from the everyday Irish who recognise a threat, who insist on fair play with their natural resources and who refuse to be steamrollered by multinationals.
Dennis Desmond
Dublin
NATIONAL ISSUE
You refer to “the infiltration of the Mayo protests by Sinn Fein activists, self-styled eco-warriors and professional protesters from outside the area”. I wouldn’t call it infiltration. A recent table quiz held in Dublin to raise money for the Shell to Sea campaign had rounds sponsored by the Labour party, the Workers party, the Socialist party, the Amalgamated Transport & General Workers Union, the Independent Workers Union, Eirigi, the Irish Socialist Network, Siptu and Sinn Fein. Prizes were donated by businesses all over Dublin.
The Shell to Sea campaign is not simply about a multinational company putting its profits before the safety concerns of the local community, but also the desire of the Irish people to get a fair deal from the exploitation of their natural resources.
Brid Ni Sheighin
Rossport, Co Mayo
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1Great report Mr Reality, Other examples are The Milford Haven Project in Wales the biggest in Europe exported from Quatar by Ship,to storage in Gloustershire undergtround . Irish LPG via Pipeline to the North Sea Feeder Network alledgedly for the Europeans, Syphoned off midway and deposited at Middlewich Cheshire by Italian Firm Ineos, Bellasconi, Blair, Bilderberg group. No one can despute the Tonnage of Ships, the Quantity or the Capacity, one can defraud the Piping System easily With Charles Law,and Boyles Law, and the Laws of Viscosity, and the Laws of Isotropic Expansion. Eire is about to get Ripped OFF Big Style. The saftey issue is self explanitary. However the real RUB is that this is all against the Constitution Of Ireland, How is this Possible? FlynnO Flynn
It seems that OFFSHORE Gas terminals have alot going for them...So have Shell been telling porkies again!!!!!
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It's not a refinery, it's a GAS TERMINAL. Now - who amoungst the local 'experts' can tell me the difference between the two!?
There is so much involved in all of this affair that nothing short of a Constitutional expose,should be called for. Eire did not throw off the Yoke of Monarchy,s to be ensnared by Corporate Greed, or by Political Incompetance, or by corruption,or indeed Government by Multinationals,or by Government from another Country. Remember this Ireland, is a Soveriegn Nation, a Republic with a written Constitution and where it cannot be produced then it does,nt Exist, from the air you breath, to the water you drink, from the fish around our shores, to the minerals under our feet ,all belong to the Indigenous People of Erin. We are the custodians of these resources, for our Childrens, Childrens, Children, and Yes best beloved Contrymen we have a written Constitution to Prove our Case.Or are we now led to Believe only the Rossport Five, are at the Barracade defending the Constitution of the Republic of Eire , from the machinations of a Legion of Political Imberciles? Flynn O Flynn.