Shamrocks and Oil Slicks Daniel D. Lowery Engaging Premodern Worlds and Perspectives

Engaging Premodern Worlds and Perspectives (Volume 2)

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biomedical and psychological foundations

Shamrocks and Oil Slicks Daniel D. Lowery Engaging Premodern Worlds and PerspectivesCounty Mayo, Ireland, is spectacularly beautiful. Dolphins, whales, and seals frolic in bays, rivers teem with salmon. Into this tranquil, unspoiled region, in early 2002, came Shell Oil, announcing plans to build a gas refinery. Shell promised wonderful things: new jobs, improved roads, money for schools. Church officials called this project a "godsend," while honest, hard working families, who had lived in Mayo for generations, certainly saw no harm