EXTRACT: It is believed that the company’s unhappiness last year over the jailing of the Rossport Five may have influenced Shell’s decision to drop its temporary injunction against the men.
THE ARTICLE
By: Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent, Irish Times
Published: Nov 28, 2006
The Norwegian energy company Statoil says it is fully committed to the Corrib gas project, and halting work on the terminal is “not an option”.
However, it says that failure by the original developer to communicate with residents in north Mayo was a significant “error” that has created “misunderstandings”, and the situation is now “very difficult”.