Comments on: Hostility to the Shell Corrib Gas Project in Ireland continues

By: John McFinnigen

John McFinnigen — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:49:07 +0000

You are all completely stupid and have no idea about what you are saying. A high risk of a massive disastour? Bollocks, there is more chance that you are going to be struck by lightning then a massive disastor to occur. A few low paying jobs? This project has brought prosperity to the region, where poverty and unemployment are rich. The local economy is booming as the good paying jobs are given to local people. It will supply Ireland with 60% of it’s gas, currently only 5% of energy is not imported from overseas. Those idiots who are protesting against this valuable recourse are stupid and foolish, half of them couldn’t pick a pea from a penny and are only there to create trouble and slow down the project.

So if you want Ireland to stay in the past, fall beind the rest of Europe, loose massive amounts of potention jobs in a finantial state tht is rife with unemployment and have to rely soley on foreign energy for years to come; then by all means, oppose the project with absoloutely no reasoning whatsoever. And then go get a job like the rest of us hard working people who don’t want trouble but want Ireland to prosper. No-one supports the activists, only the half wits who have been intimidated by them do.

By: Brynn

Brynn — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:46:32 +0000

Anthony, they don’t have to buy the media. The Irish Times knows on which side their bread is buttered.

As for the “independent review body”, their findings were contradicted by a review in late 2005 by the Centre for Public Inquiry–which review dropped off the media radar when (former) Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell abused Dáil privilege by alleging that CPI journalist Frank Connolly had traveled to Colombia using a false passport. (Allegations which have never been substantiated.)

It amazes me to see Irish citizens, like yourself, defending the government’s give-away of our natural resources to a corporation that is now making a staggering $75million (£38million) a day on the back of oil prices topping $100 a barrel.

Welcome to the New Age of Corporate Colonialism.

By: Brynn

Brynn — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:23:24 +0000

As the deal in Rossport stands, Irish citizens will get nothing in exchange for Erris’ natural gas but the high risk of a disastrous, life-threatening accident; the pollution and degradation of their local countryside; a few low-paying jobs; and the likelihood that more multi-national corporations will show up along Ireland’s western coastline looking for their own sweet, government deals. Shell’s generous corporate tax-breaks cover not only its legal costs incurred in jailing and fighting protestors, but also expenses from various projects outside of Ireland. Irish citizens, on the other hand, whose taxes pay for a much increased Gardai presence to protect Shell’s assets and who own Erris’ natural resources in the first place, will be forced at a future date to buy back their own natural gas from Shell at whatever price the market will bear.

The political descendents of Éamon de Valera should be ashamed of themselves for making this one-sided deal with Shell and selling out their birthright.

By: Anthony, Cork

Anthony, Cork — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:13:07 +0000

Oh come on… you don’t have to exaggerate to get the point across. The people behind “Shell to sea” are now craving the spot light and have lost all reason. Shell have not bought the media, sigh.

And an independent review body has approved the pipe line.