A day in Ballinaboy

mayo | environment | news report Saturday April 15, 2006 13:50 by Terry - Rossport Solidarity Camp

On Wednesday afternoon a number of Roadbridge engineers were discovered poking about at one corner of Shell’s shut down refinery construction site in northwest Mayo.

When being subject to an impromptu investigation the engineers claimed that they were laying out pegs for the Bord Gais interconnector which is to bring processed gas out of the refinery. However where they were pegging isn’t on line with the other pegs for this line, those outside the refinery site, leading picketers to believe that this was a probe to see what response they would get. In addition Roadbridge engineers had been discovered pegging in Ballinaboy some weeks previous and told then they were not be doing that on the site. Upon discovery on both occasions they desisted.
Their peg is being sent back to Roadbridge Head Office, Ballyclough, Ballysheedy,
Co. Limerick.