Irish Times: Mayo Co Council to meet on Corrib gas project
“Shell E&P Ireland said yesterday it was still considering the consent to lay the offshore pipeline granted on Tuesday by Mr Dempsey, but it had not yet responded to his letter of July 31st directing the company to break up the 3km of onshore pipeline which had been welded without ministerial consent.”
Thursday Aug 04, 2005
Lorna Siggins, Western Correspondent
Mayo County Council is to hold an emergency meeting within the next fortnight over the Corrib gas field controversy. This follows a six-hour sit-in yesterday at the local authority’s Castlebar offices by wives of the five imprisoned Rossport residents.
Three Fianna Fail councillors were among the requisite five local authority representatives who successfully petitioned the cathaoirleach, Fine Gael councillor Henry Kenny, to hold the meeting after an earlier appeal by the wives and members of the Shell to Sea campaign.