Timmy, the gas pipelines you have in Cork are safe because the gas off Kinsale is refined at sea and comes ashore clean. The workers on the Kinsale rig don't seem to find that "the Atlantic ocean is unsafe and environmentally dangerous". The protests have never been violent. The reaction to them is often overwhelmingly so. That truck was owned by the same quarry that supplies Shell. Shell to Sea is apolitical, if anyone wants to contribute they have to leave their political baggage at the door, and that includes Sinn Féin. No-one has a problem with natural gas, but a lot of people have a problem with the way this project is planned. The refinery is being built in the catchment area of the drinking water supply for 10,000 people. This is illegal in Britain, and rightly so, because it's ridiculous. Let gas off Mayo be treated the same as gas off Cork.

Finbar, Achill, Ireland

First of all there are gas pipelines running throughout Ireland and under out cities as in many other countries around the world. Secondly having a processing it out at in the Atlantic ocean is unsafe and environmentally dangerous. Tankers have had their backs broken and platforms damaged or destroyed in safer seas. Thirdly those protesters are not always peaceful and have attacked police and workers on a number of occasions. Fourthly that truck which injured the protesters foot turned out later to have nothing to do with shell and was simply passing through. Fifthly many of those organisations involved are looking for a cause to justify their existence e.g. Sinn Fein now that there is peace in Northern Ireland. Finally natural gas is among the cleanest fuels available. These Shell to sea protests are ridiculous!

Timmy, Cork, Ireland

This should not be built ;there is a enough pollution in the world already. The Co. should look at an alternate way of getting the gas not a pipe line through the beach. I expect none of the owners of this Co are living within a mile or so of this project; the poor are the feeding ground for the rich.
Perhaps they should look at not doing the project at all:This island has a long history and has not been contaminated, clean air etc. let us keep it so.

Theresa, Calif. USA,