Shell’s offer of talks refused

LOCAL opponents of the Corrib Gas project in Co Mayo have rejected a Shell Ireland offer to discuss changes to the route of a controversial onshore pipeline while a leading Shell-to-Sea activist remains in jail.

Yesterday, 409 letters were delivered from residents of Kilcommon parish to Shell’s Belmullet offices.

The letters stated opposition to meeting with Shell representatives while local fisherman Pat O’Donnell remains in jail and there continues to be an “imposition” of the Corrib gas project “without community consent”.