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Article

18 Oct 2010

Author:
Lorna Siggins, Irish Times

Shell rejects talks invite from rights organisation [Ireland]

Shell EP Ireland [part of Shell] and its security contractors for the Corrib gas project have confirmed that they declined an invitation to meet an Amnesty International/Front Line human rights delegation in north Mayo last week...Amnesty International spokesman Justin Moran said... [t]he two organisations had “no position” on the Corrib gas project itself...Shell...said that it believed that “although governments have the primary responsibility for protecting human rights”, it had “a responsibility to respect human rights and to conduct business as a responsible corporate member of society”...The private security company I-RMS...said it could not meet the delegation as it was “gravely disappointed with serious misrepresentations contained in the Front Line report [on the Corrib gas dispute] as published in April 2010”...