Shell Corrib (Ireland) gas project: ECCR urges once-in-a-lifetime chance to resolve bitter community dispute

June 2008

ECCR is this week urging Royal Dutch Shell Plc to accept the offer from local residents in Rossport, County Mayo, Ireland, of a historic, peace-making compromise, backed by Irish church and political leaders. The offer comes after a bitter six-year dispute over the location of an onshore gas refinery for the Corrib offshore gas project. Five local residents - the 'Rossport Five' - were imprisoned for 94 days in 2005 for defying a Dublin high court order forbidding them from interfering with Shell's engineering works. The new proposal involves relocating the gas refinery to an uninhabited costal site, an alternative previously identified by Shell's consultants...

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