Published: Oct 07, 2006
Despite clashes with gardaI, anti-pipeline protesters won’t give up, reports Lorna Siggins , Western Correspondent
Katie Melua would have aroused some interest if she had flown into north Co Mayo this week – and not for her distinctive singing. The 22-year-old set a new world concert record this week by performing some 303 metres below sea level on a Statoil gas rig.
Melua did undergo a medical and some training before her trip to Troll A in the North Sea. However, she was either unaware or unconcerned about the risks attached to such sea-based structures which Shell E&P Ireland has been keen to highlight over the past few weeks. Such a structure would have to be “almost as high as the Empire State building” if built for the Corrib field, Shell’s new Mayo-based deputy manager, Terry Nolan, said in Castlebar several weeks ago. Conceding that this related to height from the sea-bed at the well-head, his argument was quickly dismissed as “disingenuous” by the Shell to Sea campaign, which is seeking a shallow-water processing platform for the gas. read more
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