IRELAND’S RESOURCES - THE CASE FOR STATE CONTROL (RESOURCES PROTECTION CAMPAIGN, 1975)
Dec 17th, 2010 by Conor McCabe
The recent release of the documentary, The Pipe, brings to the fore the issue of Ireland’s natural resources and how they have seen sold off to international interests by successive government ministers, with no regard to the welfare of the country’s citizens and the needs of the State itself.
Below is a pamphlet from 1975, authored by the Resources Protection Campaign. It gives a summary of the history of the privatization of Ireland’s oil, gas and mineral resources, from 1945 to 1975.
for more information on the current situation, see the Shell to Sea website and its Gas and Oil Robbery page.
