Is Shell's Corrib Gas project good for the local community?

16% YES 84% NO

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• Why would Shell feel the need to give ahem 'funds'to local groups if they felt this prject was 100% safe? shortsighted locals are delighted to see these small bribes coming their way. The entire barony of Erris will not see one milligram of refined gas, merely raw pollutants. Towns in Mayo outside of Erris will get a clean natural fuel delivered to their doors without the nasty side-effects. Look at long term benefits - there are none for the local community. We will instead be left with a broken community with higher levels of disease than any other part of the country. Forget Shell's PR spin. Read the facts, they're not pretty
  John  United States
• Maura Harrington's article fails to mention safety of local people which I thought was the main issue. She concentrates on the economic effects on the local area. (ps. was this the same lady who was reluctant to explain why she was out protesting when she should have been teaching at school?)
  IJD  Ireland
• Nothing wrong with gas or jobs per sae - just process it off shore where there's no risk to life and limb and pay some tax back for it!!
  krossie  Ireland
• The Corrib gas could have been one of the best things to happen Mayo in a long time. Instead we have the current morass, a mix of the worst of corporate expedience and (to quote your editorial following last November's baton charge of peaceful protestors) "abject government incompetence". Let gas finds off Mayo be treated the same way as those off Cork.
  Finbar Cafferkey  Ireland
• Shell's Corrib Gas Project is fueling the corporate takeover of Ireland. We see time and time again the corruption which is supported and implemented by the governments that the Irish people elect but cannot question. Few benefit and many suffer greatly from outrageous projects like the one on the beautiful (and currently environmentally safe and clean) North West coast of County Mayo.
  Orla Treacy  Ireland
• This development is being opposed by a small number of locals and a number of outsiders who travel the country opposing anything they can! The development of Gas off the West Coast is essential and welcome progress. I hope it proceeds without delay
  John Paul Feeley  Ireland
• shell to sea
  danny byrne  Ireland
• no
  richard manton  Ireland
• Corporate Social investment is absolutley undemocratic, it puts the welfare of communities in the hands of an unaccountable Corporation. The proper procedure for social investment is for the government to tax the profits and charge for access to natural resources thereafter the resource wealth can be distributed through a democratic process involving the exchequer which exists for this purpose. The Erris peninsula's economic future lies in eco tourism, fishing trips organic fam stays walking holidays irish language courses not in decimating landscape for a short term project. Malaysian Borneo is full of Deserted shopping centres with empty shops and crumbling infrastructure which are the aftermat of a short lived oil boom. Imagine Erris in twenty years after the few scraps of plamas money is long forgotten.Shell to Sea or build it on an island and renegotiate the profits.
  Sarah  Ireland
• Pardaig sets out the arguments from a bread and butter viewpoint,the people who do not have to go to England for work like me. Maura is the utopian type who has a good job and wants to preserve the scenery for the few
  James  United Kingdom