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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS NEWS
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Monday, October 20, 2014
JOHN DONOVAN OCTOBER 20, 2014 ARTICLES
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.”
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Sunday, October 19, 2014
SHELL OUT OF SOUNDS
Shell Arts Sponsorship Protest at the National Gallery
By John Donovan
Royal Dutch Shell has suffered a string of PR debacles.
In October 2013, Shell Out Sounds, a group of singers, musicians and activists who opposed Shell’s sponsorship of Southbank Centre, staged an unsanctioned performance from the Royal Festival Hall’s choir seats in protest of a Shell Classic International concert.
The campaigners condemned the so-called ‘oil-branded concerts’ and condemned Shell for its record of environmental damage.
The venue dropped Shell: “Campaigners celebrate end of Shell’s Southbank sponsorship”
This was followed by a further PR set back in August of this year when “Shell to Sea” campaigners in Ireland mounted a public protest about Shell’s sponsorship of the largest traditional Irish music Festival, “Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann.”
Within days, the Irish Times published an article reporting that “The organisers of Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann have bowed to pressure and rejected sponsorship of the annual traditional music festival by oil giant, Shell.”
A few days ago, the official media launch of the National Gallery’s Shell-sponsored Rembrandt exhibition was interrupted by an unexpected musical protest. Ten performers launched into an energetic reworked musical version of “Dr Faustus” in front of surprised journalists, staff and gallery-goers.
At one point in the song, the narrator sang:
Museum man, he bought their plan / To sell his staff, to private hands
Make deals with corporate monsters / Like Shell the oily sponsor
Security guards attempted to stop the singers but could not prevent the performance from happening. The performance finished with the singers symbolically casting the oily Shell-devil from the building.
The campaigners protest included targeting Shell’s tar sands operation in Canada.
A link to the full article, from which some of the above extracts are taken, is provided below.
The article mentions the recent success of the Greenpeace campaign against Shell’s Arctic plans, resulting in Lego dropping Shell as a sponsor.
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