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mayo / environment / news report Friday September 24, 2010 15:24 by RSC
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In the afternoon on the 22nd September, three protesters climbed the legs of a drilling rig to disrupt Shell's work in the SAC Sruwaddacon Bay estuary read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday September 22, 2010 15:51 by jen debender
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This Monday, 20th September two Shell to Sea campaigners tied themselves to a drill on one of Shell's platforms, and remained up there stopping work for a total of 12 hours, from 7am to 7pm. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / arts and media / news report Saturday September 18, 2010 10:41 by JM
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The Mayo-based Connaught Telegraph weekly newspaper ran an on-line poll this week on the Corrib gas pipeline project, with unsurprising results. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Friday September 17, 2010 15:15 by jen debender and da ram
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Representatives from Shell and their panel of expert witnesses were prevented from leaving the An Bord Pleanála oral hearing Thursday night by peaceful protesters. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights and freedoms / news report Tuesday September 14, 2010 22:44 by Lulu
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The Bord Pleannala oral hearing saga continued today in Bellmullet at the Broadhaven Bay Hotel, looking at the Compulsory Acquisition Orders of the present project application of the Shell Corrib Gas proposed estuary pipeline route, as well as various other aspects of the project. The various concerns raised by local objectors and the Rossport Solidarity Camp were not appeased by Shell's experts, and the question of whether the project was in 'the public interest' was once again raised by Mr Leo Mulrooney, Barrister for local land owners. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights and freedoms / news report Monday September 13, 2010 19:06 by jen debender
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Local residents gathered at the Shell office in Belmullet early Monday morning to serve a Compulsory Acquisition Order (CAO) on Shell’s property and to prevent Shell workers from entering the building. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Friday September 10, 2010 21:13 by RSC
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Last Wednesday protesters disrupted Shell's work as they moved one of their hideous drilling rigs into a shallow part of the SAC estuary, close to the Rossport solidarity camp. Protesters used kayaks to get to the rig which was flanked by fourteen boats of I-RMS security and Gardai. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Friday September 10, 2010 20:36 by Shell to Hell
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Whilst the Oral Hearing on Shell's pipeline route continues, the last few weeks have seen yet more successful actions against the borehole drilling in the Special Area of Conservation Sruwaddacon estuary. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Saturday August 28, 2010 18:17 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
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A week of acions surrounding BEAT THE BOREHOLES campaign 6 actions in 5 days. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday August 24, 2010 00:35 by jen debender
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Work was stopped for about three hours on Monday afternoon when people walked out at low tide and got under Shell's drilling platform. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / press release Wednesday August 18, 2010 19:44 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo
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The 30th of August is the deadline for submissions to Minister for the Environment, John Gormley on Shell's plans to tunnel under Sruwaddacon Estuary which is designated a Special Area of Conservation. The tunnel will be.... * 4.9 kilometers long * 4.2 meters in diameter * 15 months of tunnelling * 24 hour a day tunnelling * 944 truck movements a day at peak construction * 68,000 m3 of material removed * 2.5 km of 3m high fencing read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday August 18, 2010 14:23 by FSB!
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Yesterday lunchtime, nine kayakers from Rossport Solidarity Camp, with their team of volunteers and local campaigners in support roles on dry land, successfully interrupted Shell's borehole survey drilling programme in Sruth Fhada Conn for several hours yesterday. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday August 17, 2010 12:34 by JM
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Several times a day there is a mini convoy that shoots back and forth between Ballyglass and Rossport, and this traffic intensifies at knocking-off time in the evening. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Friday August 13, 2010 19:30 by RSC
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Yesterday people from the local community of Pullathomas and Rossport and Solidarity campers lead by the rousing sound of a visiting bagpiper and drummer, returned to one of Shell's drilling rigs, gaining access at low tide across the exposed sand bars of Sruwaddacon bay. On arriving at the rig a number of people surrounded the drill casing and danced around it before forming a tight huddle to prevent any further work occurring. Meanwhile others held a large banner and occupied the area while children played in the sand. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights and freedoms / press release Wednesday August 11, 2010 15:52 by Shell to Sea
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Yesterday morning forty people from around Sruwaddacon Estuary brought Shell’s survey work in the area to a complete standstill. The community walked out onto the mudflats at low tide to assert their cockle-picking rights and disrupt Shell’s borehole drilling survey. At around 11.30am people converged at Aughoose and walked down a public right of way onto the mudflats. The group walked to one of the two jack-up barges and prevented drilling by walking underneath the platform. IRMS - Shell’s private security firm – tried to block their free passage but the people prevailed and walked where they pleased. Three people scaled the legs of the barge and occupied them for about four hours. One person chained himself to the one of the drill-shafts in order to stop the work. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Monday August 09, 2010 14:38 by RSC
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Yesterday at about 2.30pm Shell began to lower "Jack - 1" - one of two survey barges currently in Sruth Fhada Chonn estuary SAC (Special Area of Protection) - in order to tug it to another part of the estuary. The Rossport Solidarity Camp was ready and willing to claim free passage of the public estuary and in the process upset the operation. Over a dozen Shell security boats and two Garda RIBS couldn't keep the 6 kaykers out, with two of them reaching the moving barge after an hour and a half of chase. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Friday August 06, 2010 16:24 by RSC
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Campers go out before 7am and successfully prevent workers from accessing the drilling platforms. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday August 04, 2010 23:00 by R & S
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This morning 11 people from Rossport Solidarity Camp waded and kayaked out from the camp to again delay Shell’s survey work in Sruwaddacon Estuary. Overall drilling work was stopped for over 5 hours, with one person climbing up one of the legs of the drilling platforms. Several people also attached themselves to the 2 outer drilling poles which are under the platforms. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Saturday July 31, 2010 23:14 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo
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On Wed 28th July a delegation of residents handed in their objections to An Bord Pleanála and Eamon Ryan regarding Shell's latest plan to put a raw gas pipeline close to homes and through the Special Protected Area (SPA) of Sruwaddacon estuary. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Saturday July 31, 2010 22:52 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo
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Gormley was quite happy to not grant a foreshore licence for the Poolbeg incinerator in his own constituency, but seems set to allow Shell to put the health and safety of the community in Erris at risk and destroy a Special Area of Conservation. If Gormley is seeking to renegotiate on Poolbeg and withhold the granting of a foreshore licence, why can't he do the same with Shell? read full story / add a comment |
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