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mayo / environment Wednesday December 30, 2015 - 23:09 by Shelver
 3 comments (last - sunday january 03, 2016 - 03:35)  2 images
White uses Christmas to sign off on Corrib gas despite pending judicial review of EPA licence. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Wednesday October 16, 2013 - 09:32 by Confused Local
1 comment (last - friday october 18, 2013 - 21:37)
The controversial Shell Corrib gas pipeline project in Co Mayo has suffered a "major" setback after the Commercial Court today granted an order quashing the revised licence issued for the Shell gas terminal at Ballinaboy.
It appears to be a convenient coincidence for shell that this revised licence granted just as this years offshore work began, and was quashed just as the offshore work was complete! ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 11, 2013 - 23:09 by ron russ
How many times will U.S. elected Representatives of the U.S. House and Senate have to kiss Israel’s ass, and in how many ways, before “our” country will build a true national security team—that is one actually focused on U.S. security and not primarily on Israel’s? It is bad enough when Jewish-Americans politicians (with more substantive allegiance to Israel than the U.S.) like junior Senator Ben Cardin for Maryland, claiming his decision on whether Chuck Hagel will be a good Secretary of Defense resides on whether he is onboard with Israel’s/AIPAC’s agenda of having war with Israel’s enemy Iran (at least as backup force); or NY Senator Chuck Schumer equivocating about not “feeling” comfortable with voting for Hagel because of some of Hagel’s past attitudes; but even more so with suck-ups like Lindsey Graham giving about the best ass-kissing one could expect (to think some confederates once had some principle of pride and independence). ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 13, 2012 - 22:32 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
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Shell's haulage was repeatedly stopped by protesters from Rossport Solidarity Camp during today’s day of solidarity with the community in Erris under siege from the imposition of the Corrib gas project. There were three actions at different locations along Shell's haulage route between Aughoose and Bangor Erris, which resulted in a significant disruption to the haulage. The actions were also in solidarity with the reclaim the Land action against open cast coal mining in Scotland planned for tomorrow. http://www.indymediascotland.org/node/27202 ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Thursday June 07, 2012 - 22:30 by Colin Johnston
3 comments (last - sunday june 10, 2012 - 15:20) 1 image
At the time of the magnitude 4 earthquake detected on the Mayo coast on Wednesday morning, "seismic survey" vessels contracted to Shell E&P Ireland were scheduled to be in the process of using high-energy explosive pulses to probe the deep rock strata within 10-15km of the quake zone. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Tuesday December 20, 2011 - 09:16 by Kevin 9 attached files
The tunnel boring machine(TBM) planned to tunnel under Sruwadducon Bay has been named ‘Fionnuala’
after one of the children of Lir. In the story the 4 children of Lir are turned into swans for 900 years by their jealous step-mother.
They spend their last 300 years in the seas off North Mayo. ‘Fionnuala the TBM’ is 140 m long and weighs almost 500 tonnes.
It is painted with the Mayo colours and is to be transported to Erris for early next summer.
Shell plan to bore a 4.5 m diameter 4.9 km tunnel up Sruwadducon bay.
This is Shell’s gift to Sruwadducon - ‘bod nimhneach an ghaill dhaill’ (the poisonous penis of the bitter and the blind ). ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 20, 2010 - 13:14 by Ed
3 comments (last - tuesday may 25, 2010 - 11:40)
The current 'Gulf Spill' is only one of scores of such disasters in recent decades. The same pattern of reckless failures; drip release of information; cover-up and collusion between operators and statutory agencies is evident throughout. Protesters are invariably vilified or criminalized so that attention may be directed away from the really criminal irresponsibility. Read the following quotes from highly credible sources and remember Pat's 100 days in jail today. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / anti-capitalism Wednesday December 30, 2009 - 00:50 by RedFlag32
5 comments (last - sunday january 03, 2010 - 17:52)
Don't get stuck into a fake discourse of humanitarian emergency - Slavoj Zizek. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Tuesday November 03, 2009 - 22:23 by Ed Moran
3 comments (last - monday november 09, 2009 - 18:27)
Today’s publication of An Bord Pleanala’s ruling (4 page statement) amounts to a rejection of the Corrib Pipeline application. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Wednesday October 21, 2009 - 02:52 by JM
1 comment (last - thursday october 22, 2009 - 08:54) 1 attached file
Corrib onshore gas pipeline application (An Bord Pleanala ref. 16 GA 0004, 16 DA 0004) 19th May – 25th June 2009 Produced by Pobal Chill Chomain July 2009 The attached document comprises the majority of questioning put to the applicant (Shell E&P Ireland Ltd) by An Bord Pleanala, and includes a summary of the verbal responses given (NOTE: questions from Thursday June 11th not included). This text is compiled from handwritten notes and should be read only as a guide to the hearing, in conjunction with the application particulars, Environmental Impact Statement, accompanying drawings and the various Briefs of Evidence and supplementary documents. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 30, 2009 - 23:10 by Just popped in!
1 comment (last - wednesday july 01, 2009 - 08:33) 1 image
Title V, Solidarity Clause, Article 188R, Page 132 Lisbon Treaty. 1. The Union and its Member States shall act jointly in a spirit of solidarity if a Member State is the object of a terrorist attack or the victim of a natural or man-made disaster. The Union shall mobilise all the instruments at its disposal, including the military resources made available by the Member States, to: assist a Member State in its territory, at the request of its political authorities, in the event of a terrorist attack; ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / politics / elections Tuesday December 23, 2008 - 22:20 by Devils Advocate
64 comments (last - thursday january 08, 2009 - 08:47)
In June of 2009 we the people of Erris will have a rare opportunity to give our oponion on issues which are of concern to us, I suggest it is time for some of our local defenders to give us people of Erris a chance to give them a mandate to speak on our behalf! ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 08, 2008 - 20:01 by Sean
7 comments (last - wednesday november 19, 2008 - 18:36)
We urgently need a holistic approach to mental health and well being in Ireland. Recent research findings of the Health Research Board revealed that of the almost 2,500 drug related deaths in the past eight years, prescription tranquillisers such as benzodiazepines were involved in more deaths than any other drug, legal or illegal. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Monday September 15, 2008 - 10:24 by John Baker
10 comments (last - monday september 22, 2008 - 17:17)
Let’s plant trees in Erris. Let’s plant a f**k load of trees in Erris. Let’s plant enough trees to balance out any past and future damage done by Shell or other invaders and indeed by ourselves, for we are all part of the same fossil fuel based economy with our cars, our boats, our flights abroad, our central heating and our food from far away, and given this maybe it’s not enough to fight against the system that left us with no choice but to be part of it, perhaps it falls to us to create something different, to demonstrate our commitment to another reality and to get our own bodies involved in the building of it. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday July 21, 2008 - 07:46 by Niall Harnett
15 comments (last - tuesday august 12, 2008 - 15:45) 2 images
I write this letter to you the Fishermen of Erris, to your association, and to you all as individuals, and as men, in the light of Shell ‘intransigence‘, as you put it, and the arrival of Shell’s pipe-laying ship ‘the Solitaire’ off our shores. It seems Shell have hit a right nerve with you guys and you’re very correct to be reacting with the defiance you’re adopting … again and at this time. I’m sure you’re considering certain legal action to protect your fishing rights in Broadhaven Bay and beyond, and very good grounds indeed you have to do that, and succeed. But I wouldn’t be relying on that alone, if things don’t work out like! If the law makers are making laws for Shell and Shell only, those ‘laws’ should be disobeyed in any case. And we’re all well very aware of some of the bold and important stances you’ve already taken in the part you play in the hard fight against Shell and the Irish Government for the protection of Erris, it’s families, communities and it’s environment on and off shore. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Saturday July 05, 2008 - 14:19 by m.m.mccarron
3 comments (last - saturday july 05, 2008 - 21:42) 3 images
Shell to Sea is currently drawing persistent attention to the flouting of EU/ Irish law in relation to the Wildlife Act of 1985 amended in 1995. It received statutory significance through its signing by the then, Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Michael D Higgins ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / arts and media Thursday January 24, 2008 - 20:23 by Rudiger
15 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 - 14:47) 3 images
Shell recently launched another cynical attempt to buy off opposition to their Corrib Gas project by offering grants to community groups that will be closest to Bellanaboy and their proposed raw gas pipeline. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / crime and justice Wednesday November 14, 2007 - 20:26 by Sopranos Fan
4 comments (last - sunday december 30, 2007 - 20:58) 2 images
People in Erris and around the world are puzzled by the resemblance of the new Garda Superintendent in Belmullet with "Johnny Sack" Sacramoni from the Sopranos Television programme. http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/cast/character/johnny_sack....shtml http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&tas...id=38 Locals have speculated that the two may be related, or even whether the actor Vince Curatola has been hired by Mayo Gardaí to portray a heavy-handed police officer. Recent gangster tactics seen in Erris may indicate that the actor has taken his role too far. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 11:24 by Margaretta D'Arcy
22 comments (last - monday november 19, 2007 - 13:09)
Questions must be asked about the State's attitude to the use of a security firm at Shell's Bellanaboy site. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday October 29, 2007 - 01:03 by JM
19 comments (last - tuesday october 30, 2007 - 13:56) 10 images
The latest Irish Times online Head2Head poll concerned itself with the Corrib gas controversy in North Mayo, and asked the following question: Is Shell's Corrib Gas project good for the local community? The result came in as a resounding NO, with 84% believing the project as proposed is bad for the local community, with less than 1 in 6 agreeing it was good for the area. ... read full story / add a comment |
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