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Solitaire leaving Irish waters....coming to a port near you?

Today, on day 10 of Maura Harrington's hunger strike, Shell finally issued a press release confirming that the Solitaire is leaving Irish waters this afternoon, heading to a UK port. Help needed to keep mounting pressure to get the vessel to permenantly stop its operation to lay the gas pipe line in Rossport.

After weeks of refusing to communicate with campaigners, including Maura Harrington who is currently on day 10 of her hunger strike, Shell announced finally that "the Solitaire will leave Killybegs today for a UK Port where deep water berthing facilities are available,".

We need to ensure that this retreat is permenant, and not a temporary measure. The Solitaire will need to dock somewhere in Britain, as soon as we get confirmation of where this maybe we will publish this information. In the mean time we call for anyone near a port to be aware that this vessel could be mooring at a port near you. Please prepare to give it the welcome it deserves!

The following ports are possible:

England:
Felixstowe
Liverpool
Southampton

Wales:
Port Talbot
Milford Haven - South Hook and Dragon LNG facilities
Redcar

Scotland:
Invergordon
Hunterston Terminal
Hound point

For more information please see:

http://www.indymedia.ie/ and

http://www.corribsos.com/

Also, for a list of all deep water ports in the UK see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deep_water_ports

Mer Maid
e-mail: rossportsolidaritycamp@gmail.com
Homepage: http://struggle.ws/rsc/

Additions

Invergordon aka Cromarty Firth Port Authority

18.09.2008 20:53

For what it's worth, my money is (*IF* it goes to Scotland, I haven't looked at southern ports) on the Invergordon / Cromarty Firth port.

"Many of the largest subsea contractors use the Cromarty Firth regularly for fabrication, servicing and maintenance, utilising the excellent base at Invergordon with its large lay-down area and fabrication facilities." (

http://www.cfpa.co.uk/content/view/20/35/)

Whereas Hunterston & Hound Point are apparently mostly used for unloading oil or coal.

Someone else should look into the other ports.

CH
Homepage: http://www.cfpa.co.uk/content/view/12/27/