Corrib gas pipeline hearing opens

PLANNING chiefs opened a public hearing into the controversial Corrib gas pipeline route as a prominent protestor was jailed for the second time in less than two months.

Energy giant Shell and local environmentalists disagree on plans to extract massive stores of gas off the Mayo coast.

An Bord Pleanála opened its hearings into a revised onshore pipeline route yesterday amid claims by its designers that it was safer for local residents.