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Rabbitte asks oil industry whether licensing terms are too generous to oil industry

Posted on March 11, 2014 by

Minister dictates what consultants’ findings should be: that things are fine the way they are Last week Minister for Energy and Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte named the company chosen to carry out a “fitness-for-purpose” review of Ireland’s infamous licensing terms … Continue reading →

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Submission to Oireachtas Committee reviewing oil and gas exploration licensing

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Last month (December 2011) I was invited to make a written submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture, which is reviewing Ireland’s licensing terms for oil and gas exploration. My submission is below. 

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Guardians of oil and gas giveaway to be questioned in public

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

At last, the people most culpable for maintaining Ireland’s giveaway licensing terms for oil and gas are being made to explain themselves in public. At 3pm today (Tuesday, September 27th), senior officials from the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural … Continue reading →

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Surge of opposition to Rabbitte’s plan to issue licences

Posted on September 7, 2011 by

Despite the mounting swell of criticism from economists, commentators, campaigners and politicians, Pat Rabbitte is stubbornly insisting on granting more exploration licences – on Ireland’s notoriously bad terms – to companies keen to extract Ireland’s oil and gas reserves. In a stunning … Continue reading →

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