Irish Government Oil / Gas Revenue Photo: (Irish Oil and Gas) – © Irish Oil and Gas – Government take for oil: table from 2008 study by Daniel Johnston: note that Ireland Ireland’s ‘take’ is the lowest, less than half that of most of the countries – http://irishoilandgas.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/johnston_table.jpg An Interesting article from the Irish Oil [...]
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Picture of the Tunnelling Machine stuck in Glenamoy Photo: © Shell to Sea – http://www.shelltosea.com/ Shell to Sea Breaking News: “For the last twelve hours Shell and the Gardai have been attempting to move some sections of a 500 ton tunnel boring machine to the remote site of Aghoos in Erris. Despite this, the [...]
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Breaking News, Irish Times – “A large tunnel boring machine brought in by Shell to dig a 4.9km tunnel under Sruwaddacon Bay inland to the Bellanaboy gas processing terminal is stuck at a crossroads in Co Mayo as it is too large to navigate the narrow roads.” The equipment, is still being transported from [...]
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Shell Tunnel Machine leaves Dublin port – WSM Ireland A Tunnel Boring Machine to be used by Shell Oil for the Corrib Oil project left Dublin Port on Sunday night. News of the operation had leaked at the last moment which meant that only a few protesters were present. Campaigners who followed the convoy [...]
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Citadel of Aleppo Photo: (Wiki), Aleppo Citadel, Author: Preacher Lad, 8th January 2011 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aleppo_Ctadel2.JPG From Wiki Articles (“Aleppo” & “Ancient City of Aleppo”): Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; it has been inhabited since perhaps as early as the 6th millennium BC. The Old City of [...]
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Aleppo Sites Photo: (Wiki), Aleppo, Author: Preacher lad, 8th January 2011 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aleppo-collage-2011.JPG UNESCO Statement on Aleppo: “In light of escalated violence in the vicinity of several historic urban areas in Syria, the Director-General reiterates her appeal of 30 March 2012, to all parties involved in the conflict to protect all Syrian cultural heritage. UNESCO [...]
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Cherrymount Link Road in Enniskillen Photo: @ Robert Chapple / The Impartial Reporter This is a reproduction of a post by an archaeologist, Robert M. Chapple, in Northern Ireland attempting to stop the destruction of an Early Christian era Crannog in Co. Fermanagh, though it appears that it already may be too late to [...]
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Arch of Septimus Severus, Libya Photo: (Wiki), The Arch of Septimius Severus at Leptis Magna, 16th September 2006, Author: David Gunn -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leptis_Magna_Arch_of_Septimus_Severus.jpg Here is an interesting article on the real Libyan situation, relating a piece of news that has not been given any prominence in the media. The destruction and looting of Libya’s [...]
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Potatoes Photo: (Wiki) – Different potato varieties, Author – Scott Bauer, USDA ARS, This image was released by the Agricultural Research Service, the research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture, with the ID K9152-1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Patates.jpg RTE has reported that permission has been granted for the growth of genetically modified [...]
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Phoenix Arises from the Ashes: Photo (Wiki) – Phoenix-Fabelwesen – Author: Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Bilderbuch für Kinder, 1790-1830 (Eigenbesitz), Fabelwesen. Wikipedia, 2009-06-16 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenix-Fabelwesen.jpg The Poolbeg waste Incinerator has just arisen from the ashes of public waste policy. Announcing a new waste management policy, Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan said he will [...]
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