This is consultation understood only as a conversation where they (Shell) speak and we, the affected community, listen. This is not dialogue. Instead of dialogue we have been met by force and imposition, which has taken a dreadful toll on our community.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
BY MARIAN HARRISON
SHELLS plans to route the gas pipeline through Sruwaddacon Bay is as irresponsible as its previous route selection, according to community group Pobal Chill Chomáin.
The multinationals own consultants, RPS, rejected the notion of piping the gas through the bay two years ago on environmental grounds as it would adversely affect areas covered by the EU habitats directive but plans are now being drawn up to locate the controversial, high-pressure pipeline in the bay.
The latest proposal will mean that the pipeline will be even closer to Dooncarton Hill, the scene of devastating landslides in 2003.
Chairman of Pobal Chill Chomáin, Vincent McGrath, says the project has reached an impasse and cannot proceed. In 2005, Mr McGrath was one of five local residents who were jailed for more than three months for their opposition to the original pipeline.
Meanwhile, a letter sent by Shell to local residents with an offer of talks has only added fuel to the fire with Pobal Chill Chomáin branding the offer as empty and meaningless and nothing more than a box ticking PR exercise by Shell.
In all the offers to consult Shell has consistently made it clear that the Corrib project could not be altered in any way, said Mr McGrath. This is consultation understood only as a conversation where they speak and we, the affected community, listen. This is not dialogue. Instead of dialogue we have been met by force and imposition, which has taken a dreadful toll on our community.
The community group says its now time to suspend the Corrib project and for all sides, developer, state and community, to enter into genuine and meaningful dialogue.
Shell has until the end of May to submit plans to An Bord Pleanála in relation to the new gas route.
In November the board ruled that the onshore pipeline route between Glengad and Aghoose was too close to homes and recommended that a route through Sruwaddacon Bay be explored.
Shell recently sought tenders for the design and construction of the onshore pipeline through the bay.
Meanwhile, the community of Erris turned out in force on Good Friday for the annual Corrib protest walk. This year saw two walks take place, one from Pollathomas to Glengad and another in Rossport village.
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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.
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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