Irish President Michael D Higgins and author Lorna Siggins at the launch of “Once Upon A Time in the West: The Corrib Gas Controversy.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne
By John Donovan
Michael Crothers, a Shell veteran, has recently taken over as the new managing director of the Corrib Gas Project in Ireland, a project mired in controversy.
The welcome he has received from the Petroleum Affairs Division of the Irish environmental agency responsible for Energy and Natural Resources, cannot be described as warm. A written warning issued to Shell on 22 December, threatened a “cessation of works” following breaches of conditions attached to pipeline construction, granted on 25 February 2010.