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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27My congratulations once again for carrying out a marvellous action, and for doing so with bravery and tenacity. If we can keep this up all summer long then victory over Shell and the return of our oil & gas resources to our control might be nearer at hand. Perhaps Van Oord are nervous about the S2S protests? Contact details for the corporation are posted on another indymedia.ie thread comment, which I've appended to this comment for ease of navigation.
You folks are awesome! We are rootin' for you and will join you soon! Love, solidarity and support for your courage and commitment.
Trific - hats off to the pirates! Hasta la vista, compadres!
Many of these photos show the dangerous driving of the security and 'safety boats,' and it is quite clear that they were not concerned for the safety of the kayakers
Launching the dawn raid.
Approaching Shell's dredgers.
the 'safety boats'
Kayakers lined up ready to board the dredger
Kayakers on the side, while the ninja stands on the crane
More photos from today's action.
IRMS security and Belcross 'safety' boats struggle to keep us away from dredgers.
High powered security boat 'Gailtee' using extremely dangerous tactics.
More menacing manoeuvres from both Shell security (IRMS) and 'safety' (Belcross) boats.
Shell to Sea flotilla remains undeterred.
While a person was standing on top of a dredging crane, stopping it from work, Van Oord allowed the vessel to be towed - one of many highly dangerous safety violations comitted today.
The dredger is being towed away by another vessel whilst protestor stands on digger.
A view of shell's huge fleet that had invaded broadhaven bay in preparation for the Solitaire - Chased out by a group of activists in inflatable kayaks.
Direct action works!
The empty bay after the Shell subcontractors (Van Oord) pulled out.
I can't praise you young people enough. The audacity and bravery of you all will go down in the annals of Irish history.
A special thank you to our british compatriots for your help and kindness to persecuted Irish nieghbours .
THE ONGOING THUGERY OF THE GARDAI AND THEIR FASCIST MERCENERY FRIENDS WILL BE RECOCNISED AT SOME STAGE FOR WHAT IT IS = "TREASON".
The more lies the Gardai tell the less they will be believed by the public.
Shell have earned everlasting contempt by the people of rossport and eventually Ireland.
Very brave, determined action. Proud of you except for the whining.
Sorry, but "ship boarding" implies willingness to engage in a very rough game. ONCE aboard and engaged in some non-violent activity like the crane occupation your intentions have to be taken into account. But unless your "rules of engagement" for ship boarding over there are very different from here, while still in the process of boarding they probably can go by what a "reasonable person" might be entitled to assume about the possible intentions of unknown boarders.
For that reason didn't strike me as "excessive" at all. You weren't reporting people jabbed with boat hooks, having hands over the rail crushed by belaying pins, or being blown off a high deck into the sea by high pressure fire hoses - all things I would consider as still being within the realm of "normal measures to repel boarders". But perhaps your "rules" are very different?
Well done .Direct action won last summer and it will again .Contacting politicians wont achieve a thing but directly contacting uVan Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors BV may.
As ever, S2S and Rossport: you rock, thanks,
just in case you havent heard about another community in similar situation, in far DEADLIER circumstances: 25+ were assisinated yesterday morning in peru, while engaging in 56th day of direct action blocade in bagua, peru. there has been a global call out for occupations in front of all peruvian embassies and other acts of support.
please support, watch muerte en sion and crude impact (found at link below) - their struggle is our struggle
solidarity to rossport and peru from BCN,
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Massacre of Indigineous Amazonians in Peru - 25 dead and counting
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/92604
The activists' willingness to engage in 'rough play' does not excuse the captains & sailors ignoring their safety. ...beautiful work, folks!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Stay safe.
Have sent off letter by email as requested but have attached the extract from the Oral Hearing about the danger of the pipe. Have asked Van Oord to cease all sea work until land issue is resolved otherwise the company is abetting Shell putting a human incinerator on land. Totally wrong in itself. Might be useful to attach relevant materials to your letter to Van Oord. Thanks for making it easy to send the letter.
Here is a video of a protestor being pushed off the dredger ‘Rezende Bol’ by IRMS security personnel. The protestor hit protruding metal on his way down and has severe bruising on his back. Another protestor had his thumb bent back by the same security guard.
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Protestor getting pushed off Van Oord vessel
cant get much better than that lads but more sails are needed kenny borrowed harneys skirt its massive just the trick::::::::::::
With ye in spirit. Great action..................seems lucky nobody was hurt. Take care.
where the hell is Greenpeace? someone needs to replace your kayaks with zodiacs
Not sure what time, tune in, phone in, text in
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/todaywithpatkenny/
Breaking news.
New oil discovery off the west coast announced:
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/west-coast-oil-....html
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"There seems to be no Garda investigation into this crime of agravated asault"
He didn't complain to the police...WHAT are they supposed to investigate?
It seems to me,and to a lot of other people, that the people who are spinning a lot of lies are NOT the police.
I didn't hear the programme but if that chap was not asked why he's company employs/employed facist nazi paramilitaries from Eastern Europe and elsewhere in Mayo, then the whole thing was simply a Shell PR con job.
We're observing this issue as best we can from the U.S. and are wondering: You seem disturbed by the ideas, values and actions of people who post on this site and you imply that they don't allow for other views. I must ask: In the Irish mainstream media, are the dissenting opinions--meaning those against the Corrib gas line--being fairly portrayed and given a voice on programs such as the Pat Kenny and Paul Williams shows that we're reading about here?
There's a useful map of all the exploration concessions off the coast from the Department of Communications, Energy & Natural Resources at the link below.
The FT's article on the find ("Aim explorer finds oil off west Ireland" John Murray Brown, Published: June 10 2009) mentions some interesting details about Serica.
It's a UK AIM-registered company who got involved in Ireland after they recruited survivors from Enterprise Oil, which discovered the Corrib gas field and was then gobbled up by Shell. Although the Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL 1/06) was acquired by Serica in 2006, they had no money to do anything with it till they negotiated a 50% spit with German energy giant RWE in 2008, who have stumped up the money for the exploration - they were actually looking for gas (but no doubt they'll settle for oil).
The last oil discovery was 1981 by Phillips petroleum in partnership with Tony O'Reilly's Atlantic Resources vehicle. The O'Reilly's interests are now headed by Tony Jr. (Dad's still the major shareholder, natch) under the Providence name (see map for exploration areas).
As for the other players off the West coast, aside from Shell, ENI (Italian), Statoil (Norwegian), the other companies in the field are Island Oil & Gas which is a small AIM-registered Irish company (also licenced to explore the Slyne Basin, where Serica have found the oil). Not sure who the major shareholders are behind that one, but it'd be interesting to find out, at this stage.
Re: New Discovery (bis)
author by paulpublication date Fri 12 Jun 2009 01:40:41 PM CDT
Finally located the licence details reference. See link
Direct action is the only effective way to go. Meet force with force!
in late June I interviewed the guy who got on the dredger on the cliffs by the camp and got him to tell the story of that day. An edited version of that is now on youtube which includes a number of the still pictures from this thread and facts about the scale of the state mobilisation
If you view the video and like it please rate it and share it with others, the direct link to youtube is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96jUEZNHlF8
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