Shell E&P Ireland (SEPIL) has called for "reasoned and constructive dialogue" with the landowners along the route of the controversial Corrib gas pipeline in Rossport, Co Mayo.
In a statement issued this afternoon, the company claimed that landowners had so far refused to meet its representatives.
It said it had no wish to inflame the situation and that operations at its site at Bellanaboy remained suspended.
It also welcomed the publication of the most recent independent review of SEPIL’s Quality Risk Assessment (QRA) which endorsed the report's overall findings including that any risk to the public from the Corrib pipeline would be acceptable to international standards.
But an article in today's Irish Times reveals that the review of safety aspects of the proposed Shell Corrib gas pipeline, commissioned by Minister for the Marine Noel Dempsey, was written by a company which numbers Shell among its clients.
The review is the second report into safety aspects of the onshore pipeline and was ordered by the Minister after it emerged that the last report was written by British Pipeline Agency (BPA), a company owned jointly by Shell UK and British Petroleum.