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Protest against the current configuration of the project has led to the gas processing terminal building site at [[Bellanaboy]] being the most heavily-guarded {{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} in [[Ireland]] at times, with security assisted by sometimes hundreds of [[Gardaí]]. The scale and nature of the [[Garda Síochána]] operation has been controversial {{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} since force was first used in October 2006 to remove protesters blockading the Bellinaboy site. The Garda Síochána are often described as Shell's police force by protesters due to their treatment of them.{{By whom|date=October 2009}}
Protest against the current configuration of the project has led to the gas processing terminal building site at [[Bellanaboy]] being the most heavily-guarded {{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} in [[Ireland]] at times, with security assisted by sometimes hundreds of [[Gardaí]]. The scale and nature of the [[Garda Síochána]] operation has been controversial {{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} since force was first used in October 2006 to remove protesters blockading the Bellinaboy site. The Garda Síochána are often described as Shell's police force by protesters due to their treatment of them.{{By whom|date=October 2009}}


==Recent events==
==Recent events 2009 - 2010==
In April 2009, protesters removed sections of fence they asserted were erected illegally. On 23 April, [[Willie Corduff]], a [[Pobal Chill Chomáin]] member, was hospitalised in the early hours of the morning after an alleged assault by masked people during a protest at Shell works at [[Glengad]].<ref>{{cite web |last= |first= |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0423/breaking39.html |title=Protester claims he was beaten up |publisher=[[The Irish Times]] |date=2009-04-23 |accessdate=2009-06-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Siggins |first=Lorna |coauthors=Ryan, Áine |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0430/1224245681713.html |title=Ministers to speak on Corrib pipeline |publisher=[[The Irish Times]] |date=2009-04-30 |accessdate=2009-06-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/10/rossport-gas-pipeline-shell |title=Rossport's gas pipeline: Harriet Grant and John Domokos on how emotions are running high |publisher=Guardian |accessdate=2009-06-13 |last=Grant |first=Harriet |coauthors=Domokos, John |date=2009-06-10 | location=London }}</ref> I-RMS later confirmed that employees had intended to remove Corduff, but found him standing up, and had him taken away by ambulance when he complained of chest pains.<ref name="uktimes_05_07_09">{{Cite news |last=Tighe |first=Mark |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6639020.ece |title=Boat sinking claim denied |publisher=The Times |work=Ireland News |date=2009-07-05 |accessdate=26 March 2010
In April 2009, protesters removed sections of fence they asserted were erected illegally. On 23 April, [[Willie Corduff]], a [[Pobal Chill Chomáin]] member, was hospitalised in the early hours of the morning after an alleged assault by masked people during a protest at Shell works at [[Glengad]].<ref>{{cite web |last= |first= |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0423/breaking39.html |title=Protester claims he was beaten up |publisher=[[The Irish Times]] |date=2009-04-23 |accessdate=2009-06-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Siggins |first=Lorna |coauthors=Ryan, Áine |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0430/1224245681713.html |title=Ministers to speak on Corrib pipeline |publisher=[[The Irish Times]] |date=2009-04-30 |accessdate=2009-06-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/10/rossport-gas-pipeline-shell |title=Rossport's gas pipeline: Harriet Grant and John Domokos on how emotions are running high |publisher=Guardian |accessdate=2009-06-13 |last=Grant |first=Harriet |coauthors=Domokos, John |date=2009-06-10 | location=London }}</ref> I-RMS later confirmed that employees had intended to remove Corduff, but found him standing up, and had him taken away by ambulance when he complained of chest pains.<ref name="uktimes_05_07_09">{{Cite news |last=Tighe |first=Mark |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6639020.ece |title=Boat sinking claim denied |publisher=The Times |work=Ireland News |date=2009-07-05 |accessdate=26 March 2010
}}</ref>. The recent [[Frontline defenders|Frontline]] report has found that the assault on Willie Corduff needs to be reinvestigated by Gardai from outside of [[County Mayo]] as I-RMS claims are not corroborated by ambulance and hospital records which verify that his injuries are consistent with having been beaten up. <ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0427/1224269159765.html</ref>
}}</ref>. The recent [[Frontline defenders|Frontline]] report has found that the assault on Willie Corduff needs to be reinvestigated by Gardai from outside of [[County Mayo]] as I-RMS claims are not corroborated by ambulance and hospital records which verify that his injuries are consistent with having been beaten up. <ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0427/1224269159765.html</ref>


In an effort to resolve issues, the [[OECD]] is to host talks between Pobal Chill Chomáin and [[Shell Ireland]], following a complaint from [[Pobal Chill Chomáin]] that the project violates OECD guidelines for multinational companies.<ref>{{cite web|last=Siggins |first=Lorna |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0427/1224245444758.html |title=OECD to host talk in Dublin on Corrib gas dispute |publisher=The Irish Times |date=2009-04-27 |accessdate=2009-06-14}}</ref>
In an effort to resolve issues, the [[OECD]] is to host talks between Pobal Chill Chomáin and [[Shell Ireland]], following a complaint from [[Pobal Chill Chomáin]] that the project violates OECD guidelines for multinational companies.<ref>{{cite web|last=Siggins |first=Lorna |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0427/1224245444758.html |title=OECD to host talk in Dublin on Corrib gas dispute |publisher=The Irish Times |date=2009-04-27 |accessdate=2009-06-14}}</ref>

Following a prolonged Oral Hearing in the [[Broadhaven Bay]] Hotel in [[Belmullet]]in May and June 2009 chaired by [[An Bord Pleanala]] many discrepancies were uncovered in Shell & Partner's plans for [[Kilcommon]] parish and their plans were rejected once again by the Board chairman. They were told to devise a new plan to be submitted by October 2009 and after several extensions of time, [[RPS Group]] on behalf of the Corrib Gas partners, eventually submitted a new [[Environmental Impact Statement]] to the Planning Board on 31st May 2010, a plan which this time, envisages laying the Corrib gas pipeline buried under the length of [[Sruwaddacon Bay]]. On 30th June the [[Corrib gas project]] placed three separate planning notices for the project in national and local newspapers giving one month in which submissions can be entered. They also incorporated [[Glengad]] into their latest planning application, which was omitted from previous applications, Shell claiming that they thought it was exempted for some inexplicable reason. Their maps of the proposed Corrib Gas pipeline also omit most of this well populated townland in which Shell intends to place some of its most contentious components. It is expected that another Oral Hearing will then be held to discuss this variation in early autumn. <ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0630/1224273623178.html</ref>
<ref>http://www.corribgaspipeline.ie/</ref> <ref>http://www.corribgaspipelineabpapplication.ie/abpapp2010.html </ref>

The Corrib Gas partners are about to commence the boring of 80 boreholes in Sruwaddacon Bay in July 2010 to see what the substrate underlying Sruwaddacon Bay is like. Quite how they have already produced their Environmental Impact statement without having done this work yet is just another [[enigma]] in this long running saga.
<ref>http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Natural/Petroleum+Affairs+Division/Corrib+Gas+Field+Development/</ref>
<ref>http://www.corribgaspipeline.com/</ref>
<ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1104/1224258024779.html</ref>


==References==
==References==

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File:Shell to Sea protest at Bellanaboy.jpg
Shell to Sea protest at the intended refinery site at Bellanaboy, November 2007

The Corrib gas controversy concerns plans by Shell E&P Ireland, Statoil Exploration (Ireland) Limited, Marathon International Petroleum Hibernia Limited, and the Irish government for processing the Corrib gas field through Broadhaven Bay and Sruth Fada Conn Bay in Kilcommon parish, Erris, County Mayo, and objections raised against those plans.

See also: Corrib gas project

Beginnings

In 1985 Dick Spring modified, Minister for Industry and Commerce Justin Keating's 1975 exploration terms to give a sliding scale of royalties but retained a right to state participation in oil and gas finds In 1987, in a move described by Dick Spring, then a member of the opposition, as "economic treason",[1] Fianna Fáil Minister for Energy Ray Burke abolished all royalties on petroleum and natural gas extraction and removed the state's right to participation.[2][3] He also surrendered the state's atake in the Kinsale Head gas field. In 1992, then Minister for Finance, former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern extended licensing terms for fossil fuel companies, drastically reduced the tax rate for exploration companies to the lowest in the world.[4] This was compounded by Department of the Marine and Natural Resources tying the fiscal measures into the licencing terms for oil and gas exploration in November 1992.[5] Following the locking in of fiscal measures, into the licensing terms, the licence for the Corrib field was issued in January 1993.

The World Bank puts Ireland at the top (in the "very favourable" category) of its index of countries ranked by how congenial their laws are to oil and gas companies, In 2009 it was also ranked as having the lowest Government take in Western Europe.[citation needed] Sinn Féin called for an inquiry into the Corrib deal as early as 2001.

Reasons for Controversy

The controversy has stemmed from many points:

  • Local residents along the course of the proposed pipeline route felt they were not sufficiently consulted (decisions were imposed on the community by force)[3] [citation needed]
  • The location of the pipeline and its proximity caused concern [4][citation needed]
  • The transmission pressure and untreated nature of the gas in the pipeline.
  • The location of the onshore processing facility on former forestry land caused concern adjacent to water supply[6]
  • Jailing of protesters at the request of Shell
  • Concerns about the marine ecology [5]
  • Most people who live in Cill Chomáin parish, the area affected, believe that gas processing should be carried out at sea [6][7] [citation needed]
  • Some[7] are concerned with irregularities in the policies preceding this project

Planning Problems

In November, 2000 planning permission was submitted for an onshore terminal at Bellanaboy to Mayo County Council (MCC). In January, 2001 MCC sought more information after local concerns are raised. In April a new planning application was submitted. June, MCC seek more information which is supplied in July. The Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources, Minister Fahey hosted a public meeting on offshore licensing aspects of Corrib in Geesala, Co. Mayo. In August MCC granted planning permission for the onshore terminal, with conditions. This is immediately appealed to An Bord Pleanala by residents and environmental groups. Also in August Minister Fahey stated that the objectors are holding up progress in the west. The Planning decision according to a Channel Four documentary resulted from "huge pressure" that had been exerted on it. This decision was immediately appealed to An Bord Pleanála (ABP) by local people and environmental groups.[8] In 2002, planning permission for a proposed refinery in County Mayo was refused by Senior Planning Inspector Kevin Moore, of ABP. His report stated: "From a strategic planning perspective, this is the wrong site; from the perspective of Government policy which seeks to foster balanced regional development, this is the wrong site; from the perspective of minimising environmental impact, this is the wrong site; and consequently, from the perspective of sustainable development, this is the wrong site"[9].

Then Minister for Marine and Natural Resources Frank Fahey told the media that this refusal was "just a hitch".[10] He was backed by local Fine Gael TD, now leader of that party, Enda Kenny, but opposed by another local Fine Gael TD, Michael Ring. An Bord Pleanála had asked Shell to examine the less profitable option of refining the gas at sea[citation needed], but this was not undertaken. In 2002 a Rossport resident failed in a High Court challenge to halt the pipeline.[11]

In 2003 senior executives from Shell sought, and were given, an interview with then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and other Irish government ministers.[12] Within a week, Ahern met with the board of An Bord Pleanála, who are appointed by the government. In December 2003, a new planning application was made for the same site, together with a peat storage site some 11 km away. This was subject to an appeal to An Bord Pleanála who granted permission in October 2004 attaching 42 conditions.[13] The board decided to ignore many of its own inspector's recommendations. Not long before, a huge landslide swept away the whole surface area of a mountain close to the intended pipeline route. Planning permission was not required for the onshore pipeline under the Gas Act 1976.[14]

In November 2009, An Bord Pleanála ordered Shell to redesign the pipeline and move its route away from homes because it posed an "unacceptable risk".[15]

Opposition 1998 to 2004

In 1998 there were complaints from unions about the failure to employ Irish workers on the exploration rig SEDCO 711. Enterprise Oil thought union wage rates offshore Ireland were two to three times higher than in the North Sea. The budget was £20 million for 2008 cumulatively £50 million A spokesman said "Just because there is a big job doesn't mean there is slush to be thrown around for good social causes,"[16] "It is now time for the companies to acknowledge that they have an ethical and moral duty not only to our local regulatory bodies but to the ordinary people of this region to come here and publicly debate all issues relating to their current and future exploration activities off our coastline," said Mr Cunningham [17] The Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources, Mr. Frank Fahy, warned that apart from the construction stages very few jobs will be created. Sub-sea technology will be used to bring the gas to land, which lies fifty miles off the Mayo coast, in contrast to the more commonly used production platforms.h:[18] Strong objections are raised to the building of a Gas Terminal from the residents of Ballinaboy and Leenamore. The villagers say all sixteen of their households in the remote villages of are within 1 km of the proposed terminal and that some houses are as close as 360 metres.[19] In 2001 Enda Kenny TD raised, in the Dáil, the concerns of the Erris Inshore Fishermen's Association about the effect of the discharge pipe from the terminal at Ballinaboy.[20] In 2003 an offshore terminal was mooted as an optimum solution to the Corrib gas planning crux.[21]

Protests 2005 to 2008

File:Protest at McGrath's pier.jpg
Maura Harrington (on bucket, second from right) at McGrath's pier, before the incident that led to her conviction and imprisonment, June 2007

In January Shell sent registered letters to a a number of land owners who were denying the company access to their land, that they would take court action against them.[22]

Following the granting of planning permission, local people started blockading the terminal site and compounds set up for pipeline construction. On the 4th April 2005 Shell obtained a high court order restraining protesters from restricting access to its Rossport compound. In the week of 20 June it obtained a temporary injunction. On the 29th June Shell sought a committal order against five people for breach of the temporary injunction. This led to the imprisonment of the five men who became known as the Rossport Five[23] A 300 km 'Long Walk' from Rossport, Co Mayo to Dublin took place in August 2006 to highlight opposition to the project. It took 12 days.[24]

Integrated Risk Management Services (I-RMS), a security firm employed by Shell, began working in Glengad in the summer of 2008. Security men caused controversy when local journalists reported on them filming children swimming near Shell's Glengad compound in the summer of 2008. Local parish priest Fr. Michael Nallen told media that the security men made his parishioners prisoners in their own area.

On September 9, 2008, Maura Harrington began a hunger strike in protest at the arrival of the pipe-laying ship Solitaire into Broadhaven Bay, and stated she would refuse food until the vessel left Irish waters. She ended her protest on September 19, after the ship was damaged and had to leave Ireland for repairs.[25]

On the night of September 15, 2008, an IED consisting of a plastic bag containing a bottle of petrol, a clock and a can of paint was found outside the Dublin HQ of Shell.[26]

Groups Opposing and Supporting the Project

The Shell to Sea campaign, which is campaigning to have the gas processed at sea rather than inland, was created during the imprisonment of the Rossport Five in 2005. It is a very active group in the affected Kilcommon parish holding regular meetings and organising regular events. Shell to Sea also has many supporters outside of the immediately affected area from across County Mayo, across all of Ireland and there are also several international Shell to Sea groups across the world. Shell to Sea have a website that is kept updated on a daily basis. They refuse to be participants in the North West Development Forum (known as the Corrib Gas Forum or known locally as the 'Funny Forum') at which Government Ministers, Royal Dutch Shell and Mayo County Council sit occasionally in a hotel in Belmullet to try to work out a solution to the Corrib Gas problem. [27]

Pobal Chill Chomáin, a group of local residents who live in the affected Kilcommon parish, Erris, from both peninsulas of Sruth Fada Conn Bay also oppose the current plans for the project, due to concerns about the health, safety and environmental impact of the onshore aspects of the scheme and cite Shell's record in similar projects.[28] ). They refuse to participate in the Corrib Gas Forum, (North West Development Forum) at which Government Ministers, Shell and Mayo County Council try to discuss the 'development' of the Corrib Gas. [29] [30][31]

Pobal Le Chéile is a local alliance of small and medium sized local business people mainly from the Erris region who also oppose the current plans for the project. They have refused to take Shell's money. They work closely with Pobal Chill Chomáin and have refused to participate in the Forum also.

The Pro Gas Mayo Group (PGMG) is a small pressure group based in County Mayo, Ireland and successor to the Pro Erris Gas Group. It considers the Shell to Sea campaign to be threatening employment in Mayo.[32] It has three known members, Pádraig Cosgrove (from Bangor Erris),Harry Walsh (from Kilmaine, some 100 miles from the affected area) former non-party councillor on Mayo County Council (MCC)), and Brendan Cafferty from Ballina (a former Garda). None of its known members reside in the affected community of Kilcommon Parish.

A poll conducted throughout the county by TNS/MRBI on behalf of RTÉ's Nuacht in September 2006[33] showed that 60% of respondents agreed the gas processing terminal should be located offshore, with 23% supporting Shell and the government's decision to build inland. The offshore alternative had strongest support amongst those aged under 49 years, and those residing in Castlebar/Ballinrobe/ Claremorris and Westport/Belmullet areas."

Garda Operation

Main article: Policing of the Corrib gas protests

Protest against the current configuration of the project has led to the gas processing terminal building site at Bellanaboy being the most heavily-guarded [citation needed] in Ireland at times, with security assisted by sometimes hundreds of Gardaí. The scale and nature of the Garda Síochána operation has been controversial [citation needed] since force was first used in October 2006 to remove protesters blockading the Bellinaboy site. The Garda Síochána are often described as Shell's police force by protesters due to their treatment of them.[by whom?]

Recent events 2009 - 2010

In April 2009, protesters removed sections of fence they asserted were erected illegally. On 23 April, Willie Corduff, a Pobal Chill Chomáin member, was hospitalised in the early hours of the morning after an alleged assault by masked people during a protest at Shell works at Glengad.[34][35][36] I-RMS later confirmed that employees had intended to remove Corduff, but found him standing up, and had him taken away by ambulance when he complained of chest pains.[37]. The recent Frontline report has found that the assault on Willie Corduff needs to be reinvestigated by Gardai from outside of County Mayo as I-RMS claims are not corroborated by ambulance and hospital records which verify that his injuries are consistent with having been beaten up. [38]

In an effort to resolve issues, the OECD is to host talks between Pobal Chill Chomáin and Shell Ireland, following a complaint from Pobal Chill Chomáin that the project violates OECD guidelines for multinational companies.[39]

Following a prolonged Oral Hearing in the Broadhaven Bay Hotel in Belmulletin May and June 2009 chaired by An Bord Pleanala many discrepancies were uncovered in Shell & Partner's plans for Kilcommon parish and their plans were rejected once again by the Board chairman. They were told to devise a new plan to be submitted by October 2009 and after several extensions of time, RPS Group on behalf of the Corrib Gas partners, eventually submitted a new Environmental Impact Statement to the Planning Board on 31st May 2010, a plan which this time, envisages laying the Corrib gas pipeline buried under the length of Sruwaddacon Bay. On 30th June the Corrib gas project placed three separate planning notices for the project in national and local newspapers giving one month in which submissions can be entered. They also incorporated Glengad into their latest planning application, which was omitted from previous applications, Shell claiming that they thought it was exempted for some inexplicable reason. Their maps of the proposed Corrib Gas pipeline also omit most of this well populated townland in which Shell intends to place some of its most contentious components. It is expected that another Oral Hearing will then be held to discuss this variation in early autumn. [40] [41] [42]

The Corrib Gas partners are about to commence the boring of 80 boreholes in Sruwaddacon Bay in July 2010 to see what the substrate underlying Sruwaddacon Bay is like. Quite how they have already produced their Environmental Impact statement without having done this work yet is just another enigma in this long running saga. [43] [44] [45]

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