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Date Posted: Sun, Oct 16 2011, 19:27:48 PDT
Author: Forum Admin.
Subject: Letter to editor/s-'Our Oil & Gas'

LETTER TO THE EDITOR [Wordcount-270]

E-mails: rights.civil@gmail.com Socialjnet@gmail.com

Dear Editor, Our oil and gas?

As someone who has researched and written on the subject of Ireland�s natural resources since the early 1970s, I am extremely concerned that the Dublin administration seems to have insanely abandoned the prospect of increasing our future national prosperity. They seem also to have turned their backs on one of the central sentiments and aims of the 1916 proclamation: ��We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.��

Ireland and Norway have similar population sizes, but in the latter country the people and government secured these resources which they view as their national heritage. Because of such foresight key economists consider Norway the second richest country in Europe.

Dare I assume that the majority of Irish citizens are totally unaware of what is happening in their name? At grass-roots level steps must be taken to alert the general public to what informed sources describe as �a sell-out of our oil and gas�. Without such, vested interests including our �political elites�, will assume ignorance among the masses is bliss, and that they have a totally free-hand to do as they wish. At the very least people should demand that the government, on behalf of the people, secure 51% of the shares of the key oil companies, rather than enrich further the multi-nationals, at the expense of our common people.

In a bid to keep this letter brief, I suggest readers should tap into the recently created Facebook page, Social Justice Network or visit the website, myoilandgas.org

Yours truly,

Fionnbarra O�Dochartaigh,
Co-founder, NICRA, 1967

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