Shell In Mayo: Qui Bono? Follow The Money Blog Is Here

mayo | miscellaneous | other press Friday July 15, 2005 21:06 by dilligent googleer

Someone Will Benefit - Because the Irish Citizenry Will Not.

This thread will be a blog with which to follow the money. The Irish State got SFA in return for handing this gas over lock stock and barrel to A Consortium of Shell / Statoil and Marathon. Who in Ireland will benefit? Please help follow the money.

Following The Pipe At Both Ends

Shell In Mayo: Rossport 5 Jailed

"The" only answer that makes any logical sense to the qui bono question to me (and our government are nothing if not logical when it comes to asset stripping and putting interests of corporate / business elites above public interest) is that local economic elites will benefit further down the pipelines. The state will get no royalties but through these sweetheart deals the irish economic elite will extract their own royalties literally at the pumps."