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November 8th, 2013:

Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian military 18 years ago

Screen Shot 2013-05-20 at 00.07.47A BOOK OF letters and poems written by Nigerian environmental and human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa was published by NUI Maynooth today and launched by his brother Dr Owens Wiwa. The launch today was to mark the 18th anniversary of the writer and activist’s execution by the Nigerian military regime. …Saro-Wiwa led a non-violent campaign against the environmental destruction of the area. His group struggled in particular with oil company Shell.

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7 November 2013

Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian military 18 years ago.

NUIM dedicates book and audio archive to activist ‘ahead of his time’

A BOOK OF letters and poems written by Nigerian environmental and human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa was published by NUI Maynooth today and launched by his brother Dr Owens Wiwa.

The launch today was to mark the 18th anniversary of the writer and activist’s execution by the Nigerian military regime.

The book published today, ‘Silence Would be Treason, last writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa’, features private letters by the activist to Irish missionary nun Sister Majella McCarron while he was on death row and a selection of poems. read more

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Shell to Drill First Wells in $10 Billion Ukrainian Project

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By Ladka Bauerova & Kateryna Choursina – Nov 8, 2013 8:30 AM GMT

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), which signed a $10 billion shale gas deal with the Ukrainian government this year, expects to start drilling in the Yuzivska field next year.

Shell will need to drill as many as 15 wells to complete the initial exploration appraisal of the 8,000 square-kilometer (3,100 square-mile) Yuzivska field in the eastern part of the country, Graham Tiley, the country manager of Shell Ukraine, said in an interview in Kiev on Nov. 6. read more

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Shell files a less ambitious plan for Arctic drilling

Screen Shot 2013-01-11 at 20.09.51There are still many steps before Shell’s drill bits could begin burrowing into the Arctic seabed again, following a 2012 season that was marked by high-profile mishaps, including the grounding of its conical drilling unit, the Kulluk, on Dec. 31 last year. Even Shell isn’t sure it will be drilling. 

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Shell files a less ambitious plan for Arctic drilling [Houston Chronicle]

Nov. 07–WASHINGTON — Shell Oil Co. on Wednesday filed a broad drilling blueprint with federal regulators in Alaska, officially launching its bid to resume drilling in Arctic waters north of the state next summer.

The company is at least temporarily scaling back its ambitions, with a 2014 exploration plan that focuses solely on its potentially more lucrative leases in the Chukchi Sea. It also has acreage in the neighboring Beaufort Sea.

The plan filed with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management envisions that Shell would use the contracted drillship Noble Discoverer to bore several wells in the Chukchi Sea coming years. Shell and the bureau confirmed that the company filed a revised Chukchi exploration plan with the agency’s Alaska office. read more

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