The Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR) is this week urging Royal Dutch Shell Plc to accept the offer from local residents in Rossport, County Mayo, Ireland, of a historic, peacemaking compromise, backed by Irish church and political leaders. The offer comes after a bitter six-year dispute over the location of an onshore gas refinery for the Corrib offshore gas project…The dispute…has centred on the plan of Shell and its consortium partners – including Norway’s Statoil - to bring unprocessed gas ashore for refining inland at Bellanaboy. Local people claim that the land-based pipeline route and processing plant on peaty terrain involve major health and safety risks. Three local parish priests have…propose[d] relocating the gas refinery to an uninhabited costal site at Glinsk, a location previously identified by Shell’s own consultants as a possible alternative.