THE GOVERNMENT would “become the shoeshine boy of the [shale gas] industry” if it allowed fracking to take place anywhere in Ireland, according to the Nigerian human rights activist who heads Friends of the Earth International.
Nnimmo Bassey said Ministers “should not be allowed to sacrifice the environment on the altar of corporate greed” – as they had done for decades in his own country, where “the entire nation was Shell’s concession”.
Over the weekend, Mr Bassey addressed public meetings in Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim, where he spoke of the dangers of fracking in the Lough Allen Basin, and Glenamoy, Co Mayo, where Shell’s Corrib Gas project has long been the focus of bitter opposition.
“This struggle over the gas pipeline has been going on for a decade and the harassment of local activists is globally known,” he told The Irish Times. “I’m focusing on what communities are struggling on and standing with people confronting impunity.”
“people confrotning impunity”?
More like people confronting unemployment and cold homes.
I am in the oil and gas business so I oppose fracking, the Keystone Pipeline etc, because these projects will bring about cheap oil and gas, which is the LAST thing I want.
I have to sign off, now. Am headed to Washington to protest the pipeline and maybe spend a night in jail with Daryl Hanna. (What I’ll do for a profit, no?!!!)
Go home and confront your own failed state problems!
People like Bassey don’t want things to change. They are important people in their country right now and if things get better they won’t be anymore. They are more than willing to sacrifice their people’s future in order to further their own petty aims. Or they are hopelessly enamored with living in the past. Either way they can’t be reasoned with; they must simply be shouted down and bypassed.
This would be on the same continent where new coal plants are being built because fracking is more evil than coal? There is absolutely no intelligence in this stuff. Scare tactics and chicken little…..
Rather they be shoeshine boys (wow, there’s a racist term) for the elitist minority eco-flakes that DON”T EVEN LIVE THERE……