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Shell campaigners hold protests in Erris and Dublin
12/10/2007 - 10:39:04 AM
Campaigners against the Shell refinery being built in Co Mayo are holding protests today in Erris and Dublin.
Local activists from Co Mayo have asked people from across the country to travel to Erris to highlight their ongoing opposition to the scheme.
Dublin supporters, meanwhile, plan to target the offices of the Department of Natural Resources.
Regular protests against the Shell pipeline and refinery have been taking place for more than a year, with critics saying the facility poses an unacceptable safety threat.
They are also angry that the Government signed over a vast amount of Ireland's natural gas resources to Shell without claiming any royalties for the State.
Locals have arrived up to the refinery gate with wire mess removed from Pol Mac Thomas
(where the proposed pipeline would make come on land - I think)
Shell are being asked to take it back!
wire mesh even!
kp
The wire has been left outside the refinery gates with a return to sender sign - hopefully soem fotos to follow
kp
Three pics from today
Some of Shell's fencing being removed from the shoreline at the proposed Glengad landfall
New Belmullet Superintendent John Gilligan (centre) oversees the return of the fencing to Shell at Bellanaboy
A message from Erris landowners to Shell
Hmmmmm John gilligan! that name rings a bell!
Photos supplied by William Hederman. More to follow.
Sitting on the road at Bellanaboy Bridge
An old man is dragged into the ditch
A young man is dragged into the ditch
A young woman is dragged into the ditch
Heavy haulage: later at the main gate of the refinery site
It appears that the Gardaí have taken on a new approach to policing when they can't have their own way, pulling hair and throwing people's runners into the river.
A new souperintendent. What happened to the old one? Was it something we said?
they were kind enough to send him to Dublin to Pearse St. so that we don't have to go all the way to Bellanaboy to visit.
Photos supplied by William Hederman.
Camera-shy security guard
Looking on
AMAZING pictures well done william!
kp
The following are a small selection of photos from Friday.
Early on - loads of coppers
Stand-off at gate 2
People getting rough handling from Gardai
Telling the truth about the Corrib Gas project
Visitor no. 1. No prizes for guessing who.
More photos from Friday.
Sit-down blockade on the road.
Local man John being harassed by Gardai
Another visiting Garda - senior and mysterious in an unmarked car.
It says so on the enemy's gates - still no consent!
The new man in charge, I think
oops that last caption gives that Garda way more credit than is due. He's not so much in charge as he may think. He's an unwelcome presence in Erris and yet another one of $h€ll's useful idiots. Soft words and heavy numbers will go down no better than the last man's foulmouthed and violent histrionics. He is still going to use all means at his disposal to force the will of a multinational upon a resisting community. He is still going to be an accessory in the Great Gas Robbery. People have already seen through his approach, he fools nobody up there.
$h€ll can have their corrupt garbage back.
they thought they could buy consent with a bit of fencing. Think again!
Returned to sender.