Tag Archives: Pat Rabbitte

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

Posted on March 11, 2014 by William Hederman

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 →

Posted in Ireland's management of its oil and gas, State 'take', Uncategorized | Tagged Corrib gas project, DCENR, Irish natural resources, Irish oil and gas giveaway, Pat Rabbitte, Petroleum Affairs Division, Royalties on gas, William Hederman | Leave a comment

Opinion article in Evening Echo: ‘Ireland will not reap the reward of oil finds’

Posted on May 9, 2013 by William Hederman

Below is an an opinion article by me that appeared in the Evening Echo (a daily newspaper published in Cork) on May 1st, about the fact that Ireland has very little control over its oil and gas resources. The article … Continue reading →

Posted in Ireland's management of its oil and gas, Media coverage, Security of supply, State 'take' | Tagged Barryroe, Barryroe oil field, Irish natural resources, Irish oil and gas giveaway, Pat Rabbitte, Providence Resources | Leave a comment

Our oil and gas might as well be off the coast of Brazil for all the good it will do us

Posted on September 10, 2012 by William Hederman

Comment piece by William Hederman published in today’s Irish Daily Mail (10 September 2012) The dogs in the street now understand that Ireland’s share of revenue from our oil and gas fields is set to be pitifully small, thanks to … Continue reading →

Posted in Ireland's management of its oil and gas, Security of supply, State 'take' | Tagged Barryroe, Barryroe oil field, Irish natural resources, Irish oil and gas giveaway, Pat Rabbitte, security of supply, Shell to sea | 1 Comment

Article on The Journal.ie about Barryroe discovery and Ireland’s oil and gas

Posted on April 14, 2012 by William Hederman

Following the announcement in March 2012 by Providence Resources of a commercially viable oil discovery at the Barryroe field off Co Cork, The Journal.ie (an Irish online newspaper) ran this well-researched article (published 25th March 2012) about the significance of … Continue reading →

Posted in Ireland's management of its oil and gas, Media coverage, Security of supply, State 'take' | Tagged Barryroe, Barryroe oil field, Gavan O'Reilly, Irish natural resources, Irish oil and gas giveaway, Pat Rabbitte, Petroleum Affairs Division, Providence Resources, Royalties on gas, The Journal.ie, William Hederman | 1 Comment

Newstalk item about Providence discovery at Barryroe

Posted on April 14, 2012 by William Hederman

Here is a recording of a discussion I was involved in on Newstalk radio on 15th March 2012. The item was about the announcement by Tony O’Reilly’s Providence Resources that it had made Ireland’s first commercially viable discovery of oil … Continue reading →

Posted in Ireland's management of its oil and gas, Media coverage, Security of supply, State 'take' | Tagged Barryroe, Barryroe oil field, Cork oil, David Horgan, Irish natural resources, Irish oil and gas giveaway, Newstalk, Pat Rabbitte, Providence Resources, Tony O'Reilly, William Hederman | Leave a comment

Submission to Oireachtas Committee reviewing oil and gas exploration licensing

Posted on January 26, 2012 by William Hederman

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.

Posted in Gas prices, Media coverage, Security of supply, State 'take' | Tagged Brian O'Cathain, Corrib gas project, DCENR, Irish natural resources, Irish oil and gas giveaway, Joint Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture, Pat Rabbitte, Petroleum Affairs Division, Royalties on gas, security of supply, William Hederman | 7 Comments

Guardians of oil and gas giveaway to be questioned in public

Posted on September 27, 2011 by William Hederman

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 →

Posted in State 'take' | Tagged DCENR, Dept of Communications, Eamon O Cuiv, Eamon O'Cuiv, Energy & Natural Resources, Irish natural resources, Irish oil and gas giveaway, Martin Ferris, Pat Rabbitte, Petroleum Affairs Division | 3 Comments

Surge of opposition to Rabbitte’s plan to issue licences

Posted on September 7, 2011 by William Hederman

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 →

Posted in Media coverage, State 'take' | Tagged Colm Rapple, DCENR, Fintan O'Toole, Mike Cunningham, Pat Rabbitte, Petroleum Affairs Division | 2 Comments

Oil companies plan to export directly from Irish oil fields

Posted on July 3, 2011 by William Hederman

Oil might never come ashore here: no security of supply, no jobs, no investment Currently the stock defence offered for Ireland’s excessively generous licensing terms for oil and gas is that they encourage exploration, which in turn will create jobs, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Gas prices, Security of supply, State 'take' | Tagged Climate change, Corrib gas project, ESRI, Fossil fuels and climate change, Irish natural resources, Irish oil and gas giveaway, Pat Rabbitte, Petroleum Affairs Division, security of supply, William Hederman | 13 Comments

Rabbitte’s gas price gaffe on Morning Ireland

Posted on June 1, 2011 by William Hederman

Pat Rabbitte displayed a stunning ignorance of his brief on today’s Morning Ireland (June 1st, 2011). The notion that the Corrib project will bring down the price of gas in Ireland has been repeatedly exposed as nonsense. Yet this morning … Continue reading →

Posted in Corrib Gas project, Gas prices, Media coverage | Tagged Bord Gais, Corrib gas project, Irish gas prices, Pat Rabbitte, Petroleum Affairs Division | 2 Comments