Mixed Reaction to Shell’s Carousel Cleanup Proposal
Extracts from an article in the Daily Breeze.
Shell Oil Co.’s new $146 million proposal to remove contaminated soil beneath Carson’s Carousel Tract neighborhood has earned a thumbs-up from city officials, who until now have vigorously fought the oil giant’s cleanup plans.
Carson officials praise the plan because it includes an offer to temporarily relocate residents in hotels while 161,700 cubic yards of petroleum-soaked dirt are dug up from yards and trucked out. It also contains a guarantee that residents will get fair-market value if they sell their homes, despite the contamination history.
But some residents say the proposal doesn’t come close to fixing the problem. Barbara Post, president of the Carousel Tract Homeowners Association, said residents are contracting cancer and other debilitating diseases at an alarming rate because of the contamination, and they want to move. “If this lasts long enough, we’ll all die in here,” Post said. “Nobody knows what we’re really going through, honestly. The stress, the uncertainty, the worrying. Nobody knows until they’ve walked in our shoes.
Mixed Reaction to Shell’s €750,000 investment in Irish Broadband
By John Donovan
The Irish Examiner reports that Shell has announced that it will provide high quality broadband for Mayo and Galway in Ireland. The 132 kilometres of high capacity fibre optic cable will run alongside the Corrib Gas pipeline. The Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny was present and gushing at the launch.
However, by a sheer fluke, “some people in the towns of Rossport and Pullathomas, north of the terminal, who have battled the pipeline for almost a decade, won’t see any of the benefit.” Betty Schult of the Kilcommon Lodge in Pullathomas told TheJournal.ie that the move is “propaganda”. “It’s a pittance in comparison to the damage they have done to the environment. It’s beside the point. (Extracts from a news report in the journal.ie)
The Shell to Sea Campaign is also less than impressed.
Extracts from their News Release earlier today:
Shell to Sea dismisses Shell’s announcement that it will provide €750,000 installing fibre-optic broadband as a fistful of beads and baubles in comparison with the billions of euros worth of gas that was gifted to them in the Corrib Gas field.
Former Managing Director of the Corrib Gas project, Brian O’Cathain previously stated in 2010 “That Corrib will never pay tax”.
Maura Harrington stated “Shell says it will spend €750,000 (tax deductible), big deal. Shell again clicks its fingers and Enda Kenny comes toadying to do the needful.”
The TRUTH will set you FREE.
By John Donovan
Michiel Brandjes
