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CORRIB GAS CONTRACTORS TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

EXCLUSIVE: CORRIB GAS CONTRACTORS TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 04, 2020

Three UK-based contractors who travelled to Ireland to work at the Corrib Gas terminal in north Mayo have tested positive for Covid-19.

Vermilion Exploration & Production Ireland Limited, which operates the Corrib gas field, has confirmed the positive case results this afternoon.

The individuals, all of whom were asymptomatic were tested on the same day they arrived in Ireland and restricted their movements while awaiting results, said Vermilion. One of the positive cases was returned on Tuesday and two were confirmed today. read more

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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Application for modified Shell pipeline withdrawn

SHELL EP Ireland has withdrawn its planning application for a modified onshore pipeline for the Corrib gas project.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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Four held over Shell HQ bomb plot

Four people were arrested over a foiled bomb attack on energy giant Shell’s Irish headquarters.

The two men and two women were detained during a raid at a home in the Killester area of north Dublin. A suspect device found in the house was later declared a hoax by the Army bomb squad.

The four were being questioned by officers probing the planting of an improvised explosive at Shell’s offices on Leeson Street in September – the scene of dozens of protests over the controversial Corrib gas project. All four were being held under the state’s anti-terror laws at separate city centre garda stations. read more

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Irish government announce new initiative to sort Corrib gas issue

The arrival of the pipe laying ship the Solitaire in the area earlier this year led prominent Shell to Sea protester Maura Harrington to stage a hunger strike which she only halted when the ship left Irish waters

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Shell Corrib Project: ‘Undoubted mistakes’ admitted

Late last month former UN assistant secretary general Denis Halliday criticised the "ugly" methods used by gardaí to control Corrib gas protesters.

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New forum on Corrib gas project set up

A NEW Government-backed initiative on the Corrib gas project expects to begin hearings "within the month", according to the two Ministers involved.

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Former UN official critical of action by gardaí to control anti-Corrib protestors

THE METHODS used by gardaí to control anti-Corrib gas protesters was “ugly”, according to a former UN official. And the failure by the Government to find settlement on the issue “disappoints”.

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Relocation of Bellanaboy site in Corrib project not an option, Shell says

Shell, lead developer in the Corrib gas project, was responding to comments this week by Richard Kuprewicz of Accufacts Inc, an independent investigator of pipeline accidents and author of a review of the controversial gas pipeline, published in late 2005.

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