Irish man defies Shell Oil Co. in Mayo

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The Irish understand when it comes to the rights of a man and his land.

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“What They Do to Us, They Will Do to You”

Shell Oil in Mayo, Ireland

By HARRY BROWNE
July 15 / 17, 2005
Dublin, Ireland

While media attention here focuses across the Irish Sea and beyond on arrests and searches in relation to the London bombs, five men from Mayo in the west of Ireland have spent most of the last month in a Dublin jail.

Their crime is that they tried to block Shell from building a natural-gas pipeline across their land - and kept trying even after Shell got a court injunction against them. That put them in contempt of court, and in prison until they “purge their contempt”.

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This is a very interesting case which I have been following for over a month now on Irish News pages.

The Irish government are running very scared here and I believe that a major turnaround is on the books.

Jailing people for standing up for what is just common sense has never gone down well in Ireland and voters have very long memories in these situations :wink:

Slan,
D.

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How do you say “Eminent Domain” in Irish?

Meanwhile, back in the Supreme States, the local municipality of San Pablo is trying to purchase a trailer park so they can re-develop under eminent domain. They have been at this for more than a year and are now emboldened by the latest Supreme decision.

Please note that the much-maligned-by-the-Left justice Clarence Thomas wrote the dissenting opinion against the outrage.

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Even a pig gets a note right once in a while, but that doesn’t make it a musician.

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No quarter, no quarter!

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question:

Being around south-eastern KY a lot, I know about “mineral rights”. I even owned for a time (ex now has it) property that didn’t have the mineral rights attached to the deed (it reverts back in 2007, the mineral right owners have no idea they “own” them, so we just never said a word about it).

So - how does it work when you are building something OVER someone’s land (as opposed to going under it to get coal/oil/etc.)? I know in the case of coal and oil - existing structures, etc. mean nothing, you cannot inhibit the mineral rights owner from collecting their minerals in any way (this is continually being challenged, but so far hasn’t been changed).

And I’m sure this may be different country to country, so the Ireland case may be totally different than, oh, say the Alaskan Pipeline.

Anyway - just wondering if anyone knows???