The Mayo News
| TUESDAY, 20 JANUARY 2009 | |
| Áine Ryan
TWO Government ministers, Eamon Ryan and Éamon Ó Cuív, spent almost four hours in private talks in Belmullet yesterday (Monday) with community groups opposing the controversial Corrib gas project. They were accompanied by the chairman of the recently-established Community Forum for Development in North West Mayo, Joe Brosnan. Both sides confirmed last night that the talks were constructive and will continue again soon, but there was an agreement that details would not be publicised. We had positive discussions and are very aware of the need for a solution to the dispute over the project. We are also committed to ongoing dialogue with the groups, said Minister Ó Cuív afterwards. Mr John Monaghan, spokesman for Pobal Chill Chomáin, said the meeting had revealed a glimmer of hope and the potential for the beginning of a process. All sides are now more appreciative of the complexities involved and of the primacy of community consent. Weve also informed the ministers about the history of community distrust and why we could not participate in the forum, said Mr Monaghan. The groups, Pobal Chill Chomáin and Pobal le Chéile, had refused to engage with the forum when its inaugural session was held in early December due to its restricted terms of reference, which they claim do not include community consent and the possible relocation of the refinery to a remote onshore site. Last week they wrote to Mr Brosnan, a retired civil servant, and urged him to make a gesture that might lead to the building of community trust. The letter also stressed that the focus of the forum must be on finding a solution rather than creating an illusion, and must place the health and safety of the receiving community on par with the bringing of the Corrib gas to the market. Protest group Shell to Sea declined the invitation, extended on Thursday last by Joe Brosnan, to the contingency talks. We will not engage with anybody in talks that are carried out behind closed doors. We would feel it is dishonest to partake in such discussions that are not open to the people, are not independently chaired and are not fully recorded, said Maura Harrington. Instead, the group invited the ministers to a Peoples Forum held at the same Belmullet venue yesterday. The people of Kilcommon parish, who formed the majority of people attending the Peoples Forum, were bitterly disappointed that the ministers, who travelled at public expense to the area, could not come into the room to listen to the people, said Maura Harrington. The parish priest of Kilcommon, Fr Michael Nallen, attended yesterdays talks, as well as a number of other representatives of both groups, along with Government officials. |
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.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
