Shell’s Scottish subcontractors step up security over Corrib

mayo | environment | news report

Wednesday April 19, 2006 13:08

by Eve C - RSC

An article in yesterday's Glasgow Herald reported Shell’s Scottish subcontractors to have stepped up security at their offices in Aberdeen and the highlands “amid fears of direct action protesters”.

Shell’s Scottish subcontractors working on the Corrib gas project have reportedly stepped up security at their offices in Aberdeen and the highlands “amid fears of direct action protesters”.

Shell’s fears are in response to an article published on the Earth First! website by folk from England who visited the Rossport Solidarity Camp last March. The article consisted of a campaign update and a list of UK addresses for two companies involved in the Corrib project. The two companies are Technip and Transocean. Technip are responsible for “Wellhead Protection Structure Installation” and due to start work on the 20th of April. Transocean are contracted to do work on the wellhead. The article finished by welcoming protests at these companies.

According to an article published in Tuesday’s Glasgow herald entitled “jailed for oil protests in Ireland…now they’re coming here,” Scottish contractors working for shell “are considered at risk” having been identified by campaigners. It further reports that
Shell “are taking threats of action seriously and has alerted all its contractors.” And that “heightened security measures have been implemented [by these companies], particularly with the mobilization of Techip’s Corrib contract due to begin this month.” The Glasgow herald article was accompanied by a map showing the location of “sites at risk.”

Rossport Solidarity Camp media team were contacted by an Inverness Radio station yesterday for a comment on the reported threats to the Scottish based companies.

Earth First! article; http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/?q=node/1179
Glasgow Herald Article; http://ww1.theherald.co.uk/new