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First report from Glenamoy

category mayo | environment | news report author Friday October 12, 2007 10:45author by krossie - wsm totally personal capacity Report this post to the editors

text reports

Reports as they come in - usual high standards of friendly community policing being upheld!

This received about 10.30

...just tried a little blockade of the bridge but got dragged off quick enough. Few people were pulled by the hair, someone reported getting pushed in the back and they threw one guys shoe in the river

Related Link: http://www.shelltosea.com
author by krossie - wsm totally personal capacitypublication date Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:49author address author phone Report this post to the editors

10.47: Protestors are splitting into smaller groups and spreading out - some remaining at the main entrance

author by tnc - tnc corcaípublication date Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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.

author by krossie - wsm personal cappublication date Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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!

Related Link: http://www.shelltosea.com
author by krossie - wsm personal cappublication date Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

wire mesh even!

kp

author by krossie - WSM personal Capacitypublication date Fri Oct 12, 2007 13:57author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The wire has been left outside the refinery gates with a return to sender sign - hopefully soem fotos to follow

kp

Related Link: http://www.shelltosea.com
author by JMpublication date Fri Oct 12, 2007 15:32author address Rossportauthor phone Report this post to the editors

Three pics from today

Some of Shell's fencing being removed from the shoreline at the proposed Glengad landfall
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
New Belmullet Superintendent John Gilligan (centre) oversees the return of the fencing to Shell at Bellanaboy

A message from Erris landowners to Shell
A message from Erris landowners to Shell

Related Link: http://www.shelltosea.com/
author by Paul Williams - Sunday Worldpublication date Fri Oct 12, 2007 15:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Hmmmmm John gilligan! that name rings a bell!

author by Harry - Dublin Shell to Seapublication date Fri Oct 12, 2007 16:13author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Photos supplied by William Hederman. More to follow.

Sitting on the road at Bellanaboy Bridge
Sitting on the road at Bellanaboy Bridge

An old man is dragged into the ditch
An old man is dragged into the ditch

A young man is dragged into the ditch
A young man is dragged into the ditch

A young woman is dragged into the ditch
A young woman is dragged into the ditch

Heavy haulage: later at the main gate of the refinery site
Heavy haulage: later at the main gate of the refinery site

Related Link: http://www.shelltosea.com
author by RSpublication date Fri Oct 12, 2007 19:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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.

author by cdpublication date Fri Oct 12, 2007 19:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

A new souperintendent. What happened to the old one? Was it something we said?

author by RSpublication date Fri Oct 12, 2007 19:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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.

author by Harry - Dublin Shell to Seapublication date Fri Oct 12, 2007 19:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Photos supplied by William Hederman.

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Camera-shy security guard
Camera-shy security guard

Looking on
Looking on

Related Link: http://www.shelltosea.com
author by krossie - wsm totally personal capacitypublication date Sat Oct 13, 2007 13:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

AMAZING pictures well done william!

kp

author by Ray - Cork Shell to Seapublication date Sun Oct 14, 2007 17:32author email corkshelltosea at gmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

The following are a small selection of photos from Friday.

Early on - loads of coppers
Early on - loads of coppers

Stand-off at gate 2
Stand-off at gate 2

People getting rough handling from Gardai
People getting rough handling from Gardai

Telling the truth about the Corrib Gas project
Telling the truth about the Corrib Gas project

Visitor no. 1.  No prizes for guessing who.
Visitor no. 1. No prizes for guessing who.

Related Link: http://www.corribsos.com
author by Ray - Cork Shell to Seapublication date Sun Oct 14, 2007 17:41author email corkshelltosea at gmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

More photos from Friday.

Sit-down blockade on the road.
Sit-down blockade on the road.

Local man John being harassed by Gardai
Local man John being harassed by Gardai

Another visiting Garda - senior and mysterious in an unmarked car.
Another visiting Garda - senior and mysterious in an unmarked car.

It says so on the enemy's gates - still no consent!
It says so on the enemy's gates - still no consent!

The new man in charge, I think
The new man in charge, I think

author by Ray - Cork Shell to Seapublication date Sun Oct 14, 2007 18:03author email corkshelltosea at gmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

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.
$h€ll can have their corrupt garbage back.

they thought they could buy consent with a bit of fencing. Think again!
they thought they could buy consent with a bit of fencing. Think again!

Returned to sender.
Returned to sender.

Related Link: http://www.corribsos.com
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