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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Shell'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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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
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.”
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