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Mayo County Council is to call on the government to renegotiate Shell deal
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Sin Féin say “the most banana of republics” have done better deals with regard to their natural resources. The current edition of the Mayo Advertiser carries an article on proceedings at Mayo Council's monthly meeting. Mayo ADVERTISER |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Fine Gael know that the pipeline will have to go off-shore. What the party was merely saying was that there was a procedure there for mediation.
If the goverment of the day deceided that the deal should be renegotiated (which it should) can they do it
was the agreement not a contract with proctection under irish law, or can they simply tear it up?
Recent evidence form Bolivia and Russia implies that the energy companies fall into line when national governments take them on, but that sort of standoff may not even be necessary.
Many people have pointed out that since Ray Burke was found to be dishonest by a tribunal then his decisions while minister should be looked at again. No harm for FG to bring public attention to the Haughey/Burke era and remind voters of how closely Ahern was mixed up with that gang.
In the UK, Gordon Brown recently brought in a windfall tax on the ouil companies. If something like that was done here, then we could use the money to subsidise SHell to go off shore (if we wanted to be generous).
I know about what happened in russia, but could fg just tear up the contract and rewrite it, or would irish law proctect shell.
Has anybody looked into it, can it be done without costing the taxpayers billions in breach of contract penelties
Pat Rabbite seems to have answered this question a couple of hours ago, as to whether existing contracts can be re-negotiated that is.
Pat has warned big business not to sign any contracts with the current government with regard to private health centres on public property, prior to the elections, as he will, if put into office, scrap Mary Harney's policy of building these 'super clinics.'
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=17564...09&x=
So are established contracts re-negotiable?
Certainly, especially when they violate the laws and citizens of this country. And especially in a country where the concept of sovereignty is something other than lip service.