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mayo / environment / news report Friday June 12, 2009 17:26 by london
 9 comments (last - tuesday june 16, 2009 09:44)  5 images
The main doors at Shells headquarters were closed to staff at 9am today, 12 June as protesters dressed as ‘thugs' turned up for a job interview. Shell security locked all doors as protesters tried to enter the building for what they said was a job interview "we hear Shell are hiring thugs to sink ships in Ireland". read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights and freedoms / news report Thursday June 11, 2009 21:36 by Jen Debender
5 comments (last - monday june 15, 2009 00:43)
This letter was hand delivered to the workers of the 'safety boats' owned and operated by Belcross Enterprise Ltd who have been subcontracted by Shell to impose 'health and safety' in the area in Broadhaven Bay where dredging work is underway in preparation for the controversial Corrib gas pipeline. read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday June 09, 2009 15:14 by J.S
5 comments (last - thursday june 11, 2009 01:43) 1 image  3 video files
As many people know Willie Corduff (from Rossport 5 fame) was recently assaulted whilst undertaking a protest action against Shell's illegal work in Glengad. There has been much discussion, debate and spin, to the highest levels of national media and politics. In these short video interviews Willie tells the story in his own words. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Sunday June 07, 2009 01:42 by tom thumb
5 comments (last - tuesday june 09, 2009 17:25)
This is a request for people to put pressure on Van Oord to help force them from Broadhaven Bay.Van Oord is the company contracted by Shell to carry out dredging work for the off-shore gas pipeline. Today (5/06/09), when activists from the Solidarity Camp occupied one of Van Oord’s two dredging machines, the “Razende Bol”, they were met by severe violence from Shell security aboard the ships. One protester was thrown overboard by two security guards. (See: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/92596 or youtube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC7xrRQHQ6k ). Following this incident the Van Oord ships stopped working and left the area. Despite official statements from Van Oord claiming that they left due to bad weather, a Shell security guard told people that their departure was due to protester action and that Van Oord were unwilling to work with the reckless Shell security endangering protesters and compromising workers safety. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / feature Saturday June 06, 2009 11:59 by The Irish Flotilla
27 comments (last - tuesday august 25, 2009 11:19) 24 images 2 video files
For the second time in three days a Shell dredger has been boarded and occupied by a Shell to Sea protester. As a result all the ships working in the bay have ceased work and returned to harbour. Reports confirm that work has been abandoned due to the action of the protesters! read full story / add a comment 
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Friday June 05, 2009 12:04 by Jen Debender
17 comments (last - saturday june 06, 2009 11:17) 16 images
After the afternoon confrontation in Broadhaven Bay which resulted in one man’s arrest and a couple hours of halted work for the dredgers (http://www.indymedia.ie/article/92555), the Shell to Sea fleet of kayaks headed out on the water a second time around 6pm and two protesters managed to board one of the dredgers, climbing on to the neck of the crane, occupying it and halting work for 10 hours. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday June 02, 2009 20:31 by Darragh
11 comments (last - friday june 05, 2009 21:15) 2 images
Monday the 1st of June saw the arrival of a multitude of assorted vessels to Broadhaven bay. The boats, which are subcontracted by The Royal Dutch Shell company, are attempting to prepare for works on the controversial Corrib gas project. Today however, their progress has been significantly impaired by resident Shell to Sea activists that had already gathered a small, albeit formidable, fleet of kayaks, ready to deploy within short notice. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday June 02, 2009 18:23 by jerry
6 comments (last - sunday june 14, 2009 12:39) 2 images 1 video file
Part of the Shell causeway extending into the sea at Glengad was yesterday evening removed by Shell to Sea protesters. This was in protest at the illegal blocking of access to the public beach and to oppose the forcing of this unsafe project on the local community and the giveaway of Ireland's natural resources. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / feature Tuesday June 02, 2009 12:12 by Shell Ireland
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Hi folks! In the most hysterical hatchet-job to date on the campaign against Shell's discredited and disastrous inland refinery experiment in north Mayo, Sunday World crime-fighter Paul Williams turns shock jock as he presents a "documentary" about the Corrib Gas project on TV3 at 9pm on Tuesday, 2nd June. To accompany what is set to be an entertaining farce, we bring you a one-off Telly Bingo game so you can track whether any facts, relevant information or editorial balance creeps into the show. read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Sunday May 31, 2009 19:59 by gordon
8 comments (last - friday june 05, 2009 00:21) 18 images 4 video files
This afternoon at 5pm, over 200 people from the local community and the Rossport Solidarity Camp Summer Gathering attempted to dismantle Shell's illegal compound at Glengad. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Thursday May 21, 2009 00:35 by C & E & S
3 comments (last - saturday may 30, 2009 22:43) 4 images
The summer in Mayo is under way and it's set to be a busy one. Come and be part of the resistance. So long as the work continues we will continue to resist it. We need as much help as we can get from anyone willing to offer it, therefore we will do our best to keep people up to date on the ongoing events. Below is a report on the ongoing illegal works in Broadhaven Bay and on Glengad beach, the Annual Solidarity Camp June Bank holiday Gathering, May 29th to June 1st, the courts, Maura Harrington's jailing and the oral hearing. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Monday May 11, 2009 20:50 by d
30 comments (last - sunday may 17, 2009 13:40) 38 images 1 video file
May 9th, 2009 saw a successful Day of Action in the fight against Shell. Although the illegal fences in the Glengad compound still stand, the peoples' action on Saturday made a statement – the people of Erris will continue to say no to the Corrib gas project, and supporters of their struggle will continue to travel to stand alongside them. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / feature Monday May 04, 2009 13:23 by Shell to Sea
53 comments (last - monday may 11, 2009 22:09) 78 images 4 video files
This is a Call Out from the united community of Erris Co Mayo to all our national and international supporters, asking you to come to Glengad this coming Saturday 9th May at 6pm in the evening, on a Day of Action to help us remove Shell's illegal fences from the area. As you know, Shell returned to Glengad with fences and machinery on Wednesday 22nd April, with force and violence. Since then there have been a number of attempts at removing the fences and stopping the work, with a mixture of failure and success. As you can see from the photos and footage below, the will is clearly there to fight Shell, in spite of the fact that large numbers of Shell security and Gardai have been drafted into the area. But what is also clear is that numbers are needed to achieve success. Numbers, People, Bodies. That means you. Please come. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / consumer issues / news report Wednesday April 29, 2009 13:23 by Topaz Ireland Watcher
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Although many people know that Topaz is a Shell licensee, that company has been quietly removing all mention of Shell from its websites and anywhere else that the public might see it. However, as the brochure shows, Topaz is a Shell licensee. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / feature Monday April 27, 2009 09:30 by Niall Harnett
30 comments (last - thursday april 30, 2009 10:54) 23 images 1 video file
Following a cowardly and vicious attack in the dead of night by Shell mercenaries on Willie Corduff in the early hours of Thursday 23rd April 2009, members of the Erris community assisted by national supporters opposed to the Shell Corrib Gas Project, united at 3pm on Sunday 26th April to rid the Glengad beach and cliffs of Shell nets. Nets covering mounds of rubble on the Shell site at Glengad were removed also, as Shell security retreated from their usual positions on top of the cliff and inside the perimeter fence surrounding the site. The fence was cut open by local residents who proceeded to remove and shred the nets before carrying them to the gates of the Shell site which was being guarded by quite a large force of Gardaí. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday April 22, 2009 23:34 by A
6 comments (last - sunday april 26, 2009 23:25) 15 images
Todays fencing (and gates?) in Glengad is right now being removed by the community Shell returned in force to Glengad early this morning on Wednesday 22nd April 2009. Willie Corduff & 2 others lay under a Shell truck where Willie lies as we write, and is not for moving, despite the efforts of a number of Gardai to remove him. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Friday April 10, 2009 23:14 by Kathleen Tiger
39 comments (last - thursday april 16, 2009 20:02) 29 images 2 video files
Shell to Sea supporters on the annual Good Friday Walk, walked to Glengad beach this morning to take action in defence of their community and environment by removing nets over the cliff face in the Special Area of Conservation, despite a battle with Shell Security. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Thursday April 09, 2009 23:33 by Rudiger
22 comments (last - monday may 10, 2010 11:29) 1 image
Members of the public in a packed Belmullet District Courtroom clapped and cheered as applications to Judge Mary Devins to disqualify herself were made by Shell to Sea lay litigants Niall Harnett and Eoin O'Leidhin in person, and by solicitor Alan Gannon on behalf of a number of his clients which include Pat 'the Chief' O'Donnell and Maura Harrington who all face charges relating to different incidents which happened late last summer in opposition to Shell's failed efforts to lay pipe at Glengad. Niall Harnett was physically removed by Gardai from the court when he interrupted Judge Devins to say that the 'allegations' against her were “well warranted and true”. “Vicious, Unprecedented, Personal & Unwarranted” is how Judge Mary Devins is quoted in media as having responded to “the attack” of applications against her. But Midwest Radio news reported that Judge Devins denied that she gave any instruction to have Mr Harnett evicted from the courtroom. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / feature Friday April 03, 2009 22:25 by Niall Harnett
12 comments (last - saturday april 11, 2009 14:21) 13 images 2 video files
For the third time this week nets at Glengad have been put up by Shell and taken down by local residents. The purpose of the net is to stop sand-martins from nesting in the cliff-face. What was once thought to be a specially protected priority habitat for birds and wildlife has actually, in effect, become a priority habitat for Shell. All sorts of chats, communications and rumours abound about the permission for this and the consent for that, the legality of one thing and the illegality of another. But as Kevin Moore, An Bord Pleanala Senior Planning Inspector predicted in 2002, everything about this project is wrong. And it’s the right thing to do to disallow it and to stop it whatever the law says. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday March 31, 2009 17:07 by d
34 comments (last - monday april 06, 2009 14:37) 16 images 2 video files
Shell has returned to Glengad beach to install nets over the cliff face. read full story / add a comment |
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