IrelandOn-Line: Shell Oil directors to meet with TDs over pipeline: Tuesday 24 January 2006

 
Four directors of Shell Oil are due to meet with west of Ireland TD's this week, it emerged this afternoon.

The delegation, which will include former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok, is expected to try to advance progress on the Corrib gas field.

The meeting, scheduled for Leinster House on Thursday, is likely to involve Government deputies.

Independent TD Jerry Cowley has been at the forefront of the anti-pipeline campaign, and he said no representative of anti-pipeline groups had been invited to have talks with the company.

“If they did want to seriously address the safety concerns and issues, well then they should certainly be outlining who they're going to meet,” he said.

“It would appear that people have been contacted who are very much pro the gas, this is seen as a softening of the ground before a final onslaught to impose their will."