An Bord Pleanála says Corrib pipeline poses unacceptable risk

[cactusflower]

Thanks Goosebump. Its the Planning and Development Strategic Infrastructure Act 2006, which amends the 2000 Planning Act.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006, Section 4

Corrib Gas Field Development - Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

http://lawlibrary.fusio.net/document...anning2006.doc

S.I. No. 685/2006 ? Planning and Development Regulations 2006

And the 2006 Regulations:

Further information, submissions, meetings etc.
218. (1) Before determining any application for approval under Sections 181A, 182A or 182C, the Board may at any time, where it considers it necessary or expedient in respect of making a decision:

(a) request further submissions or observations from the applicant for permission, any person who made submissions or observations, or any other person who may, in the opinion of the Board, have information which is relevant to the determination of the application,

(b) make any information relating to the application available for inspection, notify any person or the public that the information is so available and, if it considers appropriate, invite further submissions or observations to be made to it within such period as it may specify, or

(c) hold meetings with the applicant for approval or any other person-

(i) where it appears to the Board to be expedient for the purpose of determining the application, or

(ii) where it appears to the Board to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of resolving any issue with the applicant for permission or any disagreement between the applicant and any other party, including resolving any issue or disagreement in advance of an oral hearing.

(2) The Board shall keep a record in writing of any consultation undertaken under sub-article (1) and a copy of such record shall be placed and kept with the documents to which any application in respect of the proposed development relates.

[edg]

And it will probably be the last pipeline ever built.

No O&GE company is going to touch us with a bargepole after this fiasco.

The irony is that for all this sh1te about the State 'giving away' our natural resources, we're probably going to have to offer even more generous terms in future to attract exploration.

35 years later and we have only tapped one gas well in thousands of miles of territorial seas, while the Norwegians, who bent over backwards to get private companies to discover reserves in the 70s, are rolling in it.

What a bloody joke we are.

I think you miss the fact that its better to have NO PIPELINE than to have 50 unsafe ones.

[Sync]

It does raise some interesting questions about carbon taxes. Vegetables and other imported products should be carbon taxed to reflect the effect of shipment and method used in shipment.

It would certainly be an interesting test case. Ireland would be a good country to try it. Apart form the UK we've no land borders with other countries, so we could legitimatly say that as the above example mentioned, the potatoes from Cyprus would do more damage to the environment and we were going to tax them.

It wouldn't work of course, because in the end it's against free trade, but it would be interesting.

[Galtee]

judging by your massive number of posts combined with the fact that you feel you have to be vindictive and insulting against other posters, i take it you don't have much of a life.
Nevertheless, I owe you an apology - I never meant to imply that the Rossport 5 were responsible for the changing of the Gas Act - I was simply using this as a reference point. The CAO's in Rossport have never been revoked despite a commitment by Shell to do so, so in theory they could go back to the original consent, however I think you would find that due to all the tinkering that has been done with the various laws since 2000 to facilitate Corrib (mostly by Frank Fahey), it is extremely convoluted to the point where nobody in the department understands the interaction of CAO's with the Gas Act anymore. It would be impossible to resurrect this process successfully due to the sloppiness of civil servants in their attempts to 'fix' things for the developers of Corrib. The Strategic Infrastructure Act does not fix this problem either - you still have the same difficulties.

[Fantasia]

She!! and their political gombeen men laughed at the locals thinking they were easy pushovers until a handful of brave residents from the effected community in West Mayo stood up for their rights despite imprisonment and intimidation.

Now She!! are starting to realize that what worked in Nigeria does not work so well in Rossport.

Shame on some members of Dail Eireann for conniving with a foreign commercial entity to create fear and hardship for our fellow citizens through the misuse of the nation's resources of An Garda S. and the Naval Service (and no doubt the Rangers for undercover ops), all paid for with the taxes of the beleaguered people of Rossport.

The gas in the Corrib basin belongs to the Rossport Five as much as it belongs to the Burke/Ahern cabal. Look at the timid Scots being robbed blind of their North Sea oil. It appears She!! feel they can do the same in the "Republic" of Ireland, emboldened no doubt by some of the abject submissive postings on P.ie.

The Gombeen Brigade crow loudly about the REPUBLIC yet their tactics usurp the will of the Irish people and show nothing but contempt for the inalienable rights of all Irishmen and Irishwomen.

[blacbloc2]

Shell have a corporate ethos of bulldozing people wherever they go and it has caught up with them. Somebody intelligent in that company needs urgently to promote the idea that doing things the right way is the easiest and most constructive way to do business: put this project out at sea where it belongs, the profits will still be huge.

[Half Nelson]

The State and Shell have lost their bid to stop two Mayo citizens pursuing High Court claims as to whether a ministerial consent given eight years ago for the Shell gas pipeline is valid.
This could become very interesting.

[James Healy]

To those who gloat over Bord Pleanala questions on safety of land pipe, are ye happy with it going up the bay which appears to be the way forward, as recommended by ABP. Lets hear from ye, that will be the litmus test. And Belmullet and Erris are bomming in this time of shut downs everywhere else.

[Half Nelson]

To those who gloat over Bord Pleanala questions on safety of land pipe, are ye happy with it going up the bay which appears to be the way forward, as recommended by ABP. Lets hear from ye, that will be the litmus test. And Belmullet and Erris are bomming in this time of shut downs everywhere else.

Taking a pipeline through a protected bay will bring its own problems but a tag like SAC hasn't stood for anything so far.

[hammer]

Belmullet & Erris booming - Cool

Well its well known that Mayo saw very little of the Celtic Tiger. Lets hope the "boom gets boomier" and hits Ballina.

THE SHELL TIGER