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‘No pause button’ on Corrib gas project, Shell says

SHELL EP Ireland has said there is “no pause button” on the Corrib gas project, and no overall delay to the current schedule. The company was responding yesterday to an industry media report that the project may have been put on hold.

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New twists in Corrib route

Shell consultants, RPS, said yesterday that ‘a revised application will now seek minor realignments to part of the proposed route for the Corrib onshore pipeline, in order to avoid more sensitive habitat, including bog pools, in the Rossport commonage, identified during recent surveys’. However, spokesman for community group, Pobal Chill Chomáin, John Monaghan, questioned how such surveys had been undertaken since there was a District Court order preventing Shell from carrying out such invasive works in the commonage.

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Application for modified Shell pipeline withdrawn

SHELL EP Ireland has withdrawn its planning application for a modified onshore pipeline for the Corrib gas project.

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Shell opposition groups boycott Mayo forum

“Shell to Sea would wholeheartedly welcome any open forum if it was willing to deal with Corrib gas project in its totality. Shell to Sea also object to the pressure various community and development groups in the area have been put under to take part in the Government sponsored event.”

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Shell to Sea will not attend Corrib Gas Project Forum

The local community has been raising the issue of Shell polluting the local water supply for over 3 years, and yet State authorities are turning a blind eye to all Shell breaches of environmental law.”

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Shell ‘bomb’ suspect tracked by city CCTV

The cost of securing the Corrib project continues to rise. The huge €11m outlay was calculated in August and does not cover the escalating protests in August and September as Shell attempted to start laying the pipe along the sea bed.

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Shell to Sea Campaign protest plans for this weekend

This week saw the anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others by the Shell-backed Nigerian dictatorship in 1995, and business people from Mayo would be better served by inviting someone from the Niger Delta to tell them what sort of company Shell is

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Irish police raid Dublin house of republican

Two people were being held last night after police investigating a bomb planted near the headquarters of the Shell oil company in Dublin two months ago raided the house on Tuesday.

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Prominent republican’s house searched over Shell pipe bomb

Gardaí investigating the discovery of an explosive device outside Shell’s head office on Leeson Street in Dublin in September have searched the home of a prominent republican in the city.

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Second suspect device discovered in Dublin

Gardaí investigating the discovery of a suspect device at the headquarters of Shell Ireland on Leeson Street in Dublin on September 9 arrested four people on Abbeyfield Road in Killester in north Dublin.

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