By Fergal O’Brien
Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) — Protesters kept Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil company by market value, from resuming work on a gas terminal in western Ireland that’s already been delayed by more than a year.
Workers couldn’t go onto the site today because of a protest, Susan Shannon, a spokeswoman for Shell Exploration and Production Ireland, said by phone. Dublin-based broadcaster RTE said on its Web site about 100 people blocked the entrance to the terminal. A number of police officers are standing between the protesters and workers, it said.
Work on the terminal, intended to process natural gas from the $1.1 billion offshore Corrib gas field, has been delayed by opposition from local residents, who want the gas processed off the coast rather than piped ashore. Shell says it can’t because of field is too deep and the sea too rough.
“We have taken every reasonable step over the past year to address the concerns around the Corrib project,” said Shell Ireland Deputy Managing Director Terry Nolan. “It is regrettable that despite this local protestors and others from outside the area have prevented our staff and local contractors from going to work today.”
Discovered in 1996, the Corrib field contains about 1.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The work scheduled to begin today was preparatory engineering and environmental work, according to Shell. The company, whose partners in the project are Statoil ASA and Marathon Oil Corp., plans to begin full construction of the terminal in the first quarter 2007.
The group organizing the protest, Shell to Sea, posted pictures of the demonstrators on their Web site, http://www.corribsos.com/ , under a headline “Shell — You do NOT have local consent!”
“I do not believe the protestors represent the views of the wider community,” Nolan said. “A small number of people who are unwilling to enter into reasonable dialogue should not be allowed to prevent work on the Bellanaboy gas terminal.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Fergal O’Brien in Dublin at [email protected]
Last Updated: September 26, 2006 07:00 EDT
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
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