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Mon 11 Nov 2002State should not 'negotiate away' environmentIreland should not "negotiate away" its environment in north-west Mayo for the promise of a few jobs with the Corrib gas field development, the Nigerian activist Dr Owens Wiwa has warned.Dr Wiwa is the brother of the late Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nigerian author who was executed with eight others in November 1995 for his opposition to the Royal Dutch Shell group's activities in the Niger Delta.