Oct 21, 2006
Madam, – Shell E&P Ireland, with the help of Minister Noel Dempsey and sections of the media, has succeeded in portraying the Shell to Sea campaign as stubborn, intransigent and unwilling to compromise with the beleaguered multinational.
Speaking on RTE radio’s News at One last Monday, the Minister claimed that protesters had yet to offer a “reasonable” solution to the conflict. This is a remarkable comment: in fact the protesters have been offering a reasonable solution since November 2000, when they first called for the gas to be processed just offshore, as happens at Kinsale and at similar projects across the globe.