North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?
US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty
Anti-Empire >>
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.
Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters
Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'
Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home
British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.
Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.
Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,
It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.
[Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.
The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.
The Saker >>
The Climate Change Committee?s 2015 Fifth Carbon Budget Over-Estimated the Price of Gas in 2025 and ... Thu Aug 21, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
The Climate Change Committee's Fifth Carbon Budget, produced 10 years ago, got its predictions about the price of gas in 2025 and the price of renewables predictably wrong, says Ben Pile.
The post The Climate Change Committee?s 2015 Fifth Carbon Budget Over-Estimated the Price of Gas in 2025 and Under-Estimated the Price of Renewables appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Thu Aug 21, 2025 01:01 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
?Hateful? Professor Who Insists St George?s Flag ?Represents Racism, Not Patriotism? and Should be C... Wed Aug 20, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
A professor of Black Studies at Birmingham University has called the St George's flag "racist" and says it should be changed, as Operation Raise the Colours sees the flags flying across the country.
The post ?Hateful? Professor Who Insists St George?s Flag ?Represents Racism, Not Patriotism? and Should be Changed appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Thousands Object Tesla?s Bid to Supply Energy to UK Homes Wed Aug 20, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Over 8,000 people have hit up Ofgem to block Tesla from supplying UK homes, all because they can't stand Elon Musk's politics, even though it could mean cheaper, cleaner energy.
The post Thousands Object Tesla?s Bid to Supply Energy to UK Homes appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Why is Duolingo Attacking JK Rowling in its German Lessons? Wed Aug 20, 2025 15:00 | C.J. Strachan
The world's leading language app seems to have taken a highly partisan position on the trans debate, says CJ Strachan.
The post Why is Duolingo Attacking JK Rowling in its German Lessons? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Lockdown Skeptics >>
Voltaire, international edition
Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en
Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en
The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en
Voltaire Network >>
dublin |
rights, freedoms and repression |
event notice
Friday October 09, 2009 10:43
by Big_ron - Dublin Shell to Sea
printable version
Digg this
del.icio.us
Furl
Reddit
Technorati
Facebook
Gab
Twitter
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 1 2Dublin Shell to Sea is protesting at the special Green Party convention today (10th October) to highlight the €420,000,000, 000-plus giveaway of Irish oil and gas, which is not on the party's agenda for its negotiations for Government.
GREENS HUNT WITH HOUNDS WHILE PRETENDING TO SAVE HARES
-- €420,000,000, 000 oil and gas giveaway ignored in party's agenda for government --
Dublin Shell to Sea is protesting at the special Green Party convention today (10th October) to highlight the €420,000,000, 000-plus giveaway of Irish oil and gas, which is not on the party's agenda for its negotiations for Government.
"The savings to be made by the spending cuts now being proposed would only be a tiny fraction of the money the exchequer would earn from Ireland's natural resources if the Government redrafted Ireland's oil and gas licensing laws so that the State took a share in those resources," Dublin Shell to Sea spokesperson Gary Ronaghan said.
"The Greens are concentrating on trying to convince their partners in government to reverse education cuts, reduce the number of TDs and to ban hare coursing," he said.
“The Greens are running with the hounds, while pretending to speak up for the hares. It was fine for them to support Shell to Sea when they were not in power, but now they are too busy being partners in a Government which plainly puts big business first. So you can forget about issues like the environment or natural resources or the stinking deal which allows multinational oil companies to take our natural resources and give us nothing in return.”
Back in November 2006, then Green Party leader Trevor Sargent blamed the Corrib Gas controversy on "the giveaway deals for exploration licenses" which he said were "comparable, in historic terms, with the Act of Union of 1800, in the way a dodgy deal can be made to look legitimate."
ENDS
NOTES TO EDITORS:
The Great Gas and Oil Giveaway
The terms of the Irish State’s deal with the Shell-led consortium are amongst the world’s least advantageous. According to a 2002 study, only Cameroon looks for a lower take than Ireland from oil or gas finds, and the state take in all but a handful of countries is twice what the government of Ireland is demanding for the Corrib gas. If the deal is allowed to continue as envisaged, the Irish exchequer will receive no royalties, no state stakehold and only 25% corporate tax, the lowest rate in the industry worldwide. All exploration and development costs can currently be written off against tax at 100%. Several countries have substantially re-negotiated oil and gas deals with multinationals, and the framework exists in the Corrib gas licensing terms for Ireland to do the same. Ireland recieves no security of supply from its oil and gas finds under current licensing terms, and will have to bid on the international market at full prices for any oil and gas reserves found.
Greens Hunt with the Hounds While Pretending to Save the Hares
News Release
Issued by Dublin Shell to Sea
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
For immediate release
The Green Party has become a lightweight group awaiting execution.
I hope an alternative 'Green' Party will emerge after we get the chance to put the present lot out of our misery.