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National - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Conference: Our Natural Resources – Not For Sale
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Wednesday March 06, 2013 11:36 by anon
The Irish government is giving away our natural resources. Oil and Gas exploration licences have been handed out to big multi nationals under terms that mean the Irish people do not gain jobs, a revenue stream or security of supply. Practices with serious environmental consequences, such as fracking,are not ruled out under law. Our water is about to be sold off too and our fisheries have been damaged and given away to the EU. Sun 10 March 11.30 – 18.00 in The Gresham Hotel, O Connell Street, Dublin 1
Hosted By Richard Boyd Barrett TD, People Before Profit
The Irish government is giving away our natural resources. Oil and Gas exploration licences have been handed out to big multi nationals under terms that mean the Irish people do not gain jobs, a revenue stream or security of supply. Practices with serious environmental consequences, such as fracking, are not ruled out under law whilst in France they were. The harvesting rights to our forests are about to be sold to the highest bidder. This threatens access rights of the Irish people to walk in our forests and endangers the sustainability of our woodlands as they will be exploited for quick sale of timber. Our water is about to be privatised. The first move has been to transfer the administration of the water services to a new semi state Irish Water and next year water charges will be introduced. When water was privatised in the north of England, the area experienced its first ever water shortages! Fishing in Ireland has been destroyed by huge multi-national trawlers, aided and abetted by EU quota regulations, plundering our waters. What we need is a sustainable fisheries policy that protects the livelihoods of small fishermen and allows local fishing industry to flourish creating jobs and protecting a valuable natural resource. The mismanagement and privatisation of our natural resources has a detrimental impact on the environment, jobs and our economy. Decisions are regularly made with regards to our natural resources without any public consultations, which are required under EU law. There is no serious plan for a programme of major public investment to develop renewable energies. Ireland is in an unprecedented economic crisis. Our natural resources have enormous potential for jobs and economic growth as would a national project to develop renewable energies. We must act now to change the policy of facilitating multi nationals in their pursuit of projects which is undermining our economy and the environment. Come along to our conference on Sun 10 March 11.30 – 18.00 in The Gresham Hotel, O Connell Street, Dublin 1 Note: Jessica Ernst will be speaking on Fracking at 1pm. For the Conference Timetable see the PDF belowTimetable for Conference 0.08 Mb Full page leaflet for the Our Natural Resources - Not for Sale Conference 0.47 Mb |
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Jump To Comment: 3 2 1The first video titled Save our Forests has three speakers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K205t5tgMV0&list=PLJ7lU_...dex=1
And the second cover Oil & Gas exploitation which has three speakers, two from Norway and Frank Connolly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYHoaxnMGGI&list=PLJ7lU_...dex=3
The first Norwegian speaks gives an account of how the oil industry started in Norway and how the government against the objections of the oil companies demanded and got very favourable terms and royalties. (That part starts 3 mins into the video). They raised the taxes on oil and gas companies from 28% to 78% and at that time setup the then 100% state owned StatOil
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Save our Forests
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Oil & Gas Exploration
Don't forget the building of massive wind installations(let's not call them farms-sounds too nice) to generate electricity for EXPORT!
Attached to this comment is a copy of the SIPTU report referred to above written by Frank Connolly and called: Optimising Ireland’s Natural Resources
Also linked below is the first part of a 7 part video on Youtube of a talk given Therese Ruane and Ian R Crane speaking about how Ireland's natural resources were signed away by corrupt ex minister Ray Burke and the fact that the deal is renegotiable as things stand. The other 6 parts can be found on youtube
Optimising Ireland’s Natural Resources by SIPTU Oil & Gas Review Group 6.04 Mb
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The Rape of Irelands Natural Resources - Part 1 of 7