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Ireland just got bigger!

category national | environment | other press author Saturday April 07, 2007 01:43author by S.Cat Report this post to the editors

Govt quietly announces country's increase in size

In news sneaked out late on Good Friday, the Irish government has announced that the country has just gotten a bit bigger. We now have the right to extend our territorial waters beyond the 200 mile limit.

Because of today's news. we can claim a much larger chunk of the Atlantic sea bed off the south-west coast. Sadly, we don't get the fishing rights.

But if there should, by some chance, be oil and gas there, then we own it*.

So that's good news then.

*Note: This development is going to mean more to certain members of the political establishment than to, for instance, pensioners, or people on hospital waiting lists. The big energy companies might be happy tonight too, wheras children in overcrowded, underfunded schools won't notice much difference.

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Ireland has become one of the first countries to be permitted to extend the boundaries of its territorial waters.

The State has received final and binding recommendations from the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf that it could increase its continental shelf off the south-west coast beyond the standard 200 nautical mile limit.

The move means the seabed, which is believed to be rich in minerals and hydrocarbons, can now be explored.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern said: "I am very proud that Ireland has become one of the first countries in the world to successfully complete the process leading to international recognition of its right to extend its continental shelf."

"This is especially fitting given the leading role that Ireland played in the 10 years of negotiation that lead to the Law of the Sea Convention, in particular in relation to the legal regime governing the rights of coastal states on the continental shelf."

Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982, all coastal states are permitted to claim a shelf up to 200 miles in breadth, subject to the exercise of the same rights by their neighbours. States whose continental shelves naturally extend beyond this distance must establish their limits to the satisfaction of the UN commission on the basis of scientific data.

A coastal state exercises over its continental shelf the sovereign right to exploit its natural resources, including oil and gas deposits as well as other minerals and biological resources, located on or under the seabed.

The recommendations allow Ireland to exercise these rights exclusively in the claimed area of extended seabed, which amounts to an additional 39,000km of Irish shelf., representing approximately half the size of its land territory.

This first Irish submission to the UN commission was a partial submission which concerns the undisputed portion of Ireland's outer continental shelf. Other areas in which Ireland's claims overlap with those of other states are the subject of separate exercises.

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author by iosafpublication date Sat Apr 07, 2007 23:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

it is not as much as i asked for 7th of december 2003
http://indymedia.ie/article/62544?&condense_comments=fa...55308
will our spies be safe in these waters or will they be forced to wear veils and make-up on telly?

author by wageslavepublication date Sun Apr 08, 2007 00:32author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Since they will probably be the only ones to benefit from this judging by the current state of things

author by Platopublication date Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Can't you hear the FF/PD boffins already working out how to give away any resources that are found. It will be interesting to see what Boards Mary Harney will be apponted to when she looses her seat in the election, apart that is, from those companies in the for-profit health sector which she is growning at the expense of the PAYE worker. You can bet your bottom dollar that Tony has a chair awaiting.

 
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