Email we received from Mr Eamonn OCoilleain
It is absolutely unreal. The applicant for this refinery and now the finally untreated raw gas pipeline is all ready 10 years old, so the people of Erris, co Mayo , Ireland do not feel safe with the risks involved in this pipeline being built up our ocean bay and though privately owned lands that the people have strongly objected to for the last 10 years . Please help if you can. Thank you
Comment from Eamonn: Since Irish Minister Ray Burke met with Shell alone, behind closed doors, It makes one wonder about the policy’s of the present government that gave away our natural resources, when the Irish people should have received their fair share instead of nothing in these economic times of cut backs to hospitals, education, old peoples pensions, Christmas funds and every thing else that was cut back on…
IN HIS OWN WORDS: Extracts from the Closing Statement presented by Eamonn OCoilleain to an Bord Pleanála hearing on 29 September 2010 concerning the Shell Corrib Gas Project in Ireland:
Off the west coast of Ireland there are remarkable amounts of gas and oil, Trillions and trillions worth, how much is really out there?