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Tuesday October 30, 2007 20:44 by Sean Mallory (wsm pers cap) & Soundmigration (wsm pers cap)
November the tenth: lessons learned (or not)
Looking back at Shells history of brutality and looking forward to the comemmeration actions in Mayo on November 9th
The tenth of November is fast approaching. This day has come to signify across the world the brutality that is systematic behind Royal Dutch Shell's corporate image. It is also becoming a day of hope and resistance against this brutality. Twelve years ago this November the Nigerian government hung nine activists from MOSOP(Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People) at the behest of Shell. These activists (who included the famous writer Ken Saro Wiwa) were accused of incitement murder by the Nigerian military Junta. The charges were absolutely spurious. Saro Wiwa was detained by the military as he tried to go the Niger delta the morning before the murders even happened. The case of gross injustice attracted worldwide support from many organisations such as the Sierra Club. Even John Major the Conservative Party leader at the time called the executions "judicial murder". Unfortunately, the massive efforts failed and the nine were hung on November the 10th 1995. One may ask what has this got to do with Shell, Ireland or us.
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Jump To Comment: 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1As you say, 9.9 million cubic metres = 349.6 million cubic feet.
The increase in gas prices has lagged considerably behind that for oil and 1 thousand cubic feet of gas is cuurently worth around €5.00. Therefore, assuming gas is produced at the maximum rate permitted, income would be about €1.75 million/day at peak production. However, that wont last anything like 20 years - peak production will only continue for maybe 3-4 years and the production rate will then start a steady decline.
After costs, that should still represent a reasonable profit which is great news for Ireland because Shell and the other Corrib partners will pay 25% of profit to the Government in tax.
9.9million cubic metres of gas per day = = 349. 6 million cubic feet
Natural gas is converted to barrels of oil equivalent using a ratio of
5,487 cubic feet of natural gas per one barrel of crude oil.
therefore Shell's throughput of energy will be 63,717 barrels of oil equivalent
Which at today's price (apprx 90dollars per barrel) =$5,734530 dollars per day.
That's nearly six million dollars worth of energy going through Bellanaboy every day for 20 years.
Pity we won't see any of it...
Oil indystry experts please come along and tell us why the maths are wrong, the estimates are out, it's all too much for us to understand...
"should we be talking prophecy or hindsight"
maybe we should precieve reality!
Very buoyed with your success to date; as already stated, that's entirely dependant on who you may be ...
You neglect to give a year for 'complete and operational ahead of schedule'.
Given that this proposed project was supposed to be 'operational' at end 2003 (or else the lights would go out) should we be talking prophecy or hindsight??
My prophecy for when, whether or if the proposed refinery will ever be able to use its pollution licence!
This project will be complete and operational ahead of schedule.
One of the most vocal, local "protestors" will sup from Shells cup !
History will show the truth, valete
Grant you last post's 'prophecy' Nostradamus - of course, not knowing who you are takes away from it a little; you could be an EPA bod or, heaven forfend, a $hell suit (but of course they couldn't have known then - silly me!).
Now for the difficult bit - let's hear your prophecy for when, whether or if the proposed refinery will ever be able to use its pollution licence??
See above post by "Nostradamus Thu Nov 08, 2007 09:57"
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1113/shell.html
uncanny or what!
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
"Three protesters were arrested and another was hospitalized as officers cleared away a sit-down protest at the gates of Royal Dutch Shell PLC's planned refinery in the unpopulated bogland of Bellanaboy in County Mayo, police said.
Shell to Sea, a protest group that has mounted several similar protests since construction of the Bellanaboy facility began 13 months ago, said a truck carrying Shell workers ran over a protester's foot.
The group vowed to keep trying to hamper the construction work all day. Its protest was timed to coincide with the 12th anniversary of Nigeria's execution of nine anti-Shell campaigners, including writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Anti-globalization activists have struggled in vain to persuade the government to withdraw support for the Shell project in Ireland, a long-booming country that is highly dependent on imported fuel......"
read more at
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/09/europe/EU-GEN...t.php
BANGKOK POST
excerpt below
"Who are the real climate leaders?
Any serious climate change movement will have to connect with local communities that are battling fossil fuel projects
By LARRY LOHMANN
Forget, for a moment, the Kyoto Protocol and the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme. Leave aside the burgeoning carbon ''offset'' business. If you're looking for real progress on climate change, your time might be better spent paying a visit to a couple of coastal towns in southern Thailand.
For travellers on the road from Bangkok to Malaysia, the crossroads at Bo Nok, Baan Krut might seem only a collection of rice fields, fishing boats, tourist resorts, coconut trees, temples and shops.
Yet this is a community that defeated corporate and state plans to build one of the biggest coal-fired power plants in Thailand on its beachfront.
The victory cost years of sweat and blood.
Charoen Wat-Aksorn spoke up about corrupt land grabs connected with the project and was murdered in 2004.
Other villagers spent countless hours exposing the fraudulence of its environmental impact assessment in recognition of which Jintana Kaewkhao, a local woman who never finished high school, was awarded an honorary PhD.
Today the community is consolidating its gains, exploring wind-powered electricity and lending a hand to communities battling fossil fuel projects elsewhere.
One such community lies several hundred kilometres south in Chana district. Chana's local monster is a prestigious Thai-Malaysian natural gas pipeline and refining venture backed by Thailand's ousted tycoon prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Chana is less lucky than its sister community to the north.
After years of fraudulent land deals, bribes and intimidation and beatings by police, a huge gas separation plant now defiantly sits on community wakaf land _ a supposedly inalienable Muslim commons entrusted to God _ drawing gas from a pipeline illegally forced across a local beach.
A gas-fired power plant is going up. Chemical works may not be far behind.
But villagers are not giving up.
They say that they are fighting not only for their lives and religion, but for a natural heritage that belongs to the whole country.
Some professional climate activists slight such local struggles as secondary to the task of negotiating global emissions reduction targets.
They forget that dealing with climate change means, above all, finding practical means of keeping fossil fuels in the ground.
As eminent climatologist Jim Hansen reiterated in June, burning the Earth's remaining coal, oil and gas ''would guarantee dramatic climate change, yielding a different planet from the one on which civilisation developed''.
No one is better informed about what it will take to prevent that happening than communities like Bo Nok and Chana.
Their experience reminds us that however brilliantly the world theorises ways of getting carbon out of energy, it is also going to have to get energy companies out of fossil fuel deposits.
Any serious climate change movement will have to connect with such communities everywhere, whether they are battling Shell in the Niger delta or in Rossport in Ireland or contesting the huge new National Grid gas pipeline in South Wales.
These are communities dialled into the politics of the future....."
See more at
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/10Nov2007_news17.php
* Goodbody Economic Consultants’ report says Corrib Gas will contribute €3bn to GDP over the lifespan of the project
* Corrib Gas project will provide approx. 60% of Ireland’s natural gas needs at peak production
* Public consultation underway to select alternative pipeline route
* Construction of onshore terminal commenced in September
* Over 800 jobs to be created during construction phase and approx. 130 permanent jobs created thereafter
An independent report from Goodbody Economic Consultants, commissioned by the Corrib Gas Partners, estimates that the Corrib Gas project will contribute over €3bn to Ireland’s GDP over its lifespan, supplying 60% of the country’s natural gas needs at peak production. The gas field is estimated to yield approximately one trillion cubic feet of natural gas over an operating life of fifteen to twenty years.
The Goodbody Economic Consultants’ report also states that the Corrib Gas project will make a significant contribution to national energy policy by moderating Ireland’s dependence on imported energy. It will also provide stable and economic energy supplies, enhancing the sustainability of existing industry in the BMW region.
The Corrib project has led to a decision to extend the natural gas network to the North West. Already twelve towns are to receive natural gas. This expansion has been enabled by the construction of a Bord Gais pipeline connecting the Corrib gas processing terminal to the main Bord Gais network, a pipeline funded predominantly by the Corrib partners.
The Goodbody report also states that successful completion of the Corrib project will encourage further energy exploration activity off the Irish coast.
During the construction phase of the project, the local Mayo economy will directly benefit by approximately €181m. In relation to employment, the Goodbody Economic Consultants’ report states that the project is expected to create over 800 jobs during the construction phase, with an estimated 130 permanent jobs to be created for the ongoing running of the project over fifteen to twenty year lifespan. Employment created by the the Corrib project and the purchase of goods and services from local suppliers is expected to significantly boost the local and national economy.
Bernard Feeney, Managing Director, Goodbody Economic Consultants and co-author of the report said: “Major investment projects such as the Corrib Gas project impact on the economy in two ways, firstly, the spending arising from the construction and operation of the project boosts economic activity. Secondly, the presence of the new economic activity will have so called dynamic effects, as it encourages investment by other firms and changes the structure of the local and national economies.”
“The construction and operation of the facility will give rise to significant additional local employment. Although the Irish economy as a whole has been operating at or close to full employment for a number of years there are still regions of the country where additional employment or an increase in the skill and income level of the employment opportunities available are needed.”
Alternative onshore pipeline route
The Corrib Gas partners are currently working to find an alternative route for the onshore pipeline. Following a period of public consultation, three alternative pipeline corridors have been identified. Technical evaluation on and around these corridors is progressing and public consultation will continue throughout the process. Once the new route has been selected, the Corrib Gas Partners will then make an application to An Bord Pleanala and the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for the relevant consent for the modified pipeline route
**Sorry, type my name into the search box and the essay will come up...there's over 30 images.
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ShellToSea is holding a commemoration march at Shell's proposed Bellanaboy refinery site in Mayo this Friday morning 9th November at 7.00 am. This march is to mark the 12th anniversary (10th November 1995) of the State execution of Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and his eight comrades, who were high profile opponents of Shell's environmental destruction of their homeland.
This occasion also marks the first anniversary of the baton-charge of peaceful demonstrators at a similar march in Mayo last year.
ShellToSea has always accepted and employed the legitimate use of non-violent direct action as a tool of opposition to the proposed project, and acknowledges the right and duty of every individual to seek justice on and show opposition to the project in a responsible way.
In contrast to Truth and Non-violence, any methods employing deception and/or verbal and physical assault on any person, by any individual, are to be condemned without reservation.
This anniversary is a significant global day of solidarity, and ShellToSea calls on all fair-minded people to remember the communities who suffer at the hands of oil companies and their projects around the world.
END
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The EPA are about to grant $hell E&P a IPPC licence, this will occur next week, the reason they havent yet announced it is that they/gov are waiting until after fridays protest.
I will post another prophecy late next week, valete
Obey the Law? Tell that to Shell/RPS when they damage a Special Area of Conservation without permission - illegally, when they construct pipelines without permission - illegally.
Or should the law apply to certain people only?
FYI - nobody wants to prevent Shell developing the Corrib gas field - it is their methods that the people of Erris object to. It is the giveaway of our natural resources that the people of Ireland object to.
The photo at the head of this is part of a photo essay from the last action day last month.
Type in Bellanaboy to Pullathomas in the search box to find it and some comments/info on the day itself. You can see a better version of the essay on the link below.
Let Shell get on with their work. Shell has a legal right to develop the Corrib gas field. Stop wasteing the Guards time, Stop wasteing Shells time and obey the LAW.
History tends to repeat itself... never forget.
Kilcommon Parish, Erris - 1881
Kilcommon Parish, Erris - 2006
Therw will be a protest at Shell Hq at 12 on Friday the 9th in solidarity with the Day of Action In Rossport.
For further details see http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84888
Rural Planning Services have been hired by Shell to manufacture the concept of community input into re-routing an unwanted pipeline to an unwanted refinery.
RPS personnel have been present at all the borehole sites in the area, and the drilling itself has been announced by RPS as part of their investigative work (which is apparently several weeks behind schedule by their own account).
When the unauthorised drilling and heavy traffic movements on a Special Area of Conservation were discovered and highlighted by the local community, RPS issued a statement making excuses for themselves and Shell.
RPS are entirely responsible (reportedly much to Shell's amusement) for the recent mess surrounding the Corrib controversy, and especially the borehole drilling.
RPS crew reluctantly removing drilling gear from Rossport
Just to clarify something, as someone from the engineering fraternity, RPS wouldn't be drilling anything. They're consultants, not contractors.
Recognise the Garda?
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Yesterday afternoon, RPS drilling work was again disrupted on the Coillte site in Leanamor. One protestor who crawled under the drilling rig was dragged out by the new Superintendent John Gilligan. Presumably this was his attempt to show his new charges that he too is willing to get down and dirty for Shell. The protestor was arrested and brought to Belmullet station but was released without charge shortly after. Drilling work resumed after about 2 hours once garda reinforcements arrived.
This morning at the picket there was a large garda presence with at least 4 paddy wagons and 4 garda cars around the area. Trucks were blocked for a short period but protestors were moved on by the gardai
The Irish Times weekly head2head poll finished on Sunday with 84% of voters stating that they belive that the Corrib project is bad for the local community, no sign of Shell's silent majority there....
Bring on the 9th, when the numbers at Ballinaboy should show this more clearly than ever!
Dublin bus to mayo- leaves Dublin thursday Nov 8th at 18-30 from Hugh Lane gallery on Parnell sq. north (call or text 086 1609850). Car pool from Cork. More Info will follow for Limerick Galway Belfast etc.