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Community responds with 409 refusals to Shell's sham consultation

category mayo | rights, freedoms and repression | press release author Wednesday April 14, 2010 16:47author by Community of Kilcommon Report this post to the editors

---Corrib project has been imposed through 'harassment' of the local community---

409 letters have been delivered from members of the community of Kilcommon to Shell's Belmullet offices today Monday. The letter outlines their refusal to meet with representatives of the company while Pat O'Donnell remains in jail and the imposition of the Corrib gas project continues without community consent. The letters detail a large number of grievances that the local community have with the imposition of the project, and state that people are refusing to meet with Shell while what “effectively amounts to ongoing and escalating physical and psychological harassement” continues in the area.

The letters dismiss as hollow Shell's proposed 'consultation', in the context of the fact that the current and previous Managing Directors of the company have publicly stated that the project will not be changed in any way in response to community concerns.
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Community spokesperson Éamonn Ó Murchú stated that: “As Shell are well aware, there is a lack of trust in them in the wider Kilcommon community caused by Shell’s acknowledged mistakes in its treatment of the community when trying to push through its plans to construct an experimental raw gas pipeline and inland refinery in Erris.”

“Pat O’Donnell is currently incarcerated in Castlerea prison, serving a seven month sentence. We are deeply angered and upset by his jailing, and this supposed 'cosultation' is cold comfort to his family and friends at this time.”

He further added: “Following a public meeting in Inver on Friday 19th March 2010 it was decided it is not appropriate to meet with Shell or RPS staff for the duration that Mr. O’Donnell is in prison. Furthermore, we will not be meeting Shell or RPS staff while the harassment of the community continues. We will not be holding individual or small group meetings.”

Related Link: http://www.shelltosea.com

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author by Chrissiepublication date Thu Apr 15, 2010 20:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Shell's 'talks' are meaningless whitewash, aimed at making a credible PR image for the company while trampling on Erris' people's rights. The people who are defending their land don't have time to waste in an exercise in futility.
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author by Maura Harrington - S2S; Davitt Leaguepublication date Thu Apr 15, 2010 23:13author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Re: Letter of Thursday March 18th 2010 (COR-01-SH-GE-1341)

Mr Carrigy

I am writing in response to your recent letter (your reference above) in which you suggested your company and associates conduct “face-to-face and small group meetings within the community” to discuss “this phase of the Corrib gas project” i.e. possible high-pressure raw-gas pipeline routes in the area.

Following a number of public meetings and wide discussions within the Parish of Kilcommon on the issue, I feel all parties must consider the following points.

• Despite numerous opportunities to do so, your company/agents did not at any time enter into open and honest discussions with the people of the area.
• Such discussions should have taken place before the proposed project began, not fourteen years after the Corrib gas field was discovered.

Since the proposed project began, your company and/or agents acting on your behalf have been directly responsible for and/or suspected of the following.

• Unnecessary destruction of the natural environment at Glengad and Broadhaven Bay.
• Harassment of local people on the roads by construction vehicles.
• Repeated trespass on private property.
• Contempt of a District Court Order over trespass issues.
• Threatening letters and phone calls to local residents.
• Construction of an illegal road through the Special Area of Conservation at Glengad.
• Installation of an illegal septic tank in Rossport discharging into Sruwaddacon Bay.
• Unjustified and hostile legal action against local residents.
• The jailing of the Rossport Five.
• Illegally constructed gas pipeline at Leenamore and Bellanaboy.
• Continued pollution of the local waterways, including the drinking-water source of Carrowmore Lake.
• Criminal damage to boats at Ballyglass.
• Theft of electricity at Ballyglass Pier.
• Light and noise pollution at numerous locations throughout the parish.
• Suspected fish-kill at Broadhaven Bay.
• Illegal boreholes at the SAC at Glengad.
• Interference with protected nesting and feeding birds at Glengad and Sruwaddacon Bay.
• Physical attacks on marine mammals in Broadhaven Bay.
• Dumping of excavated materials into the coastal waters.
• Illegal gas pipeline construction at Glengad.
• Illegal construction compounds in Glengad and Rossport.
• Fuel and chemical spills in coastal waters.
• Illegal employment of unlicensed security guards.
• Illegal security operation throughout the parish.
• Repeated breaches of road traffic laws, including vehicle registration, tax and insurance violations.
• Harassment of people in public places, including the local beach at Glengad.
• Video surveillance of bathers – including children – at the local beaches.
• Video surveillance of people in their homes.
• Verbal and physical assaults on members of the public, e.g. Willie Corduff on Shell property in 2009.
• Misleading the public and statutory authorities on technical and health and safety issues.
• Ongoing attempts to criminalize the local community, e.g. jailing of Erris fishermen Pat O’Donnell.
• Sinking of local fishing boat “Iona Isle”.
• Theft of and damage to local fishing gear.
• Involvement in recruiting international terrorists.

Considering all of the above, and particularly whilst Pat O’Donnell remains unjustly incarcerated, I have decided not to meet with you or any of your agents in relation to the proposed Corrib gas project for the foreseeable future.

Signed

author by C - RSCpublication date Thu Apr 15, 2010 23:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Just a point to note is that the Shell man in the last picture that is receiving the letters is Alan Mee, who is the assistant Shell Manager for Mayo.

As it so happens his father, Johnny Mee retired from being a councillor last year. Before he retired however he helped Shell get their way against the wishes of local residents who objected to a road being upgrade totally for the benefit of Shell.

You can read an account of the Mayo Council Meeting here: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86638

“The first to jump to his feet in support of the motion was Cllr Johnny mee (Labour) who spoke of the need to facilitate the job creation in Mayo and the road should go ahead in the quickest possible time. He stated that “it must be hard on the industrialists” given all the objections that seem to be going in about everything. He proposed the motion that the road be given council permission.”

Related Link: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86638
author by Boadiceapublication date Fri Apr 16, 2010 09:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I find it really encouraging to learn that the local community in Kilcommon is making what appears to me to be a very healthy, strong, peaceful, and lawful attempt to stand up for their rights: human rights, civil rights, and legal rights.

On an independent, but hopefully complementary basis, an effort was also made yesterday to try to point out to members of our Government, and to our "main stream media", that this extremely important "Shell Oil issue" also involves a number of very basic and very important "constitutional rights": which impacts on all of the several million citizens of the Republic of Ireland.

A copy of the e-mail used yesterday, which was addressed primarily to Prime Minister Brian Cowen TD, can be viewed at the following location:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/PrimeMinisterCowen/15...l.htm

 
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