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by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Mar 26, 2025 00:18 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Publish or Be Damned Tue Mar 25, 2025 19:00 | John MacNab
Academic publishing is in crisis. Now a multi-billion dollar industry where researchers pay journals to publish their papers, the old guarantees of quality and accuracy have been stripped away, says John MacNab.
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offsite link NHS Hauls Nurse Over Coals for Calling 6ft Transgender Paedophile ?Mr? Tue Mar 25, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
An NHS hospital is being sued after it hauled a popular nurse over the coals for calling a 6ft transgender paedophile "Mr" when discussing a catheter with a doctor ? despite him lunging at her and calling her a "n****".
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offsite link Deport All Foreign Criminals, Says Labour MP in Attack on ECHR Tue Mar 25, 2025 15:20 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer should set aside the European Convention on Human Rights and deport all foreign criminals, Labour MP Jonathan Brash has said, as Left-wing voices opposing the 'criminal rights' charter grow.
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offsite link Toby Young Was Given his Peerage for the Wrong Reason Tue Mar 25, 2025 13:00 | Alexander Norman
Toby Young was given his peerage for the wrong reason, says Alexander Norman. He deserved it for creating Lockdown Sceptics in April 2020 ? a lonely refuge from a world taking a new and cruel delight in preventing joy.
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Donegal Geologist's View

category national | sci-tech | opinion/analysis author Monday August 07, 2006 13:23author by Anon Report this post to the editors

Geologist view on Oil Exploration in Ireland

As a Geologist working for a major international Oil company (currenty exploring off the Irish west coast) I believe that the 1992 ruling on exploration licenses is enabling Ireland to place itself as a net exporter of hydrocarbons.One must realise that exploring for oil is highly risky , 10% of drilled wells are successful and each exploration well can cost in the order of 30-50million euros also essential seismic data acquistion does not come cheap.

For Irish offshore oil exploration to compete on a global level (which it must) with the likes of 'cheap' exploration countries like the Middle East, the Far East, China and Africa, Ireland needs good tax incentives to encourage oil companies to spend a huge amount of time, money and effort in searching for what is an elusive, deminishing natural resource. This legislation was put in place in 1992 and has in my opinion done reasonably well in keeping the multinationals and smaller startup oil comapnies exploring for oil offshore Ireland.

The legsilation that does need to change is the production agreements (that is when a commercially viable field is discovered). The tax regime should be either more punititve or an Irish National oil company needs be set up as in Norway (Statoil). This would be my prefered choice, it helps in job creation , knowledge transfer (from the multinationals to Ireland), and offices could be set up in the poorer counties on the west coast thereby benefiting not only Donegal but also the whole of Ireland.

Yours

Anon

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