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A week of Hell for Shell
Shell's Drilling Work Stopped by Shell to Sea Campaigners in Ireland
Beat The Boreholes Continues to Disrupt Shell's Plans
Rossport Solidarity Campers interrupt Shell's drilling programme yet again the day after Niall Harnett's release from prison
Drill huggers stop Shell's drilling work
Shell disrupted - Beat the Boreholes continues
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.
Shell drilling stopped for an hour and a half
Rossport Solidarity Campers go out before 7am and successfully prevent workers from accessing the drilling platforms.
SchNEWS 734: Grassroots Struggle
Yet another independent festival has been cancelled after a concerted campaign by bureaucrats, nimbys and the fun police. The Grassroots Feastival is a small volunteer run event due to take place in Cambridgeshire in early September. Organisers had lined up three days of revelry, running from poetry to Drum 'n' Bass and culminating in a communal banquet replete with juggling waiters. The Feastival faced determined opposition from the very start. According to one of the organisers, Mooney, when the application process began in January the council made it clear they would do all they could to stop the festival taking place. Martin Ford from the police licensing board went one step further and told organisers, “I'd rather put pins in my eyes than have this festival in my county.” Links: www.thegrassrootsfeastival.co.uk
Shell drilling stopped for 5 hours – as Beat the Boreholes continues
Waders tie down Shell testing rig in Mayo, Republic of Ireland
10 people from the Rossport solidarity camp delayed Shell’s survey work for the dangerous and experimental Corrib gas pipeline yesterday. The campaigners waded out to one of the rigs drilling boreholes in the Sruwaddacon estuarythe rig at high tide, fixed rope around the legs of the rig, and occupied the space underneath it to prevent the being moved to a new site. Work was delayed for around two hours.
Beat the Boreholes continues!!
Fri 30th July: 100 days of Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Along with BP, Transocean, the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor, is also responsible for the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
Shell to Sea campaigner attacked at sea last night.
Garda tells campaigner, “I have your last breath in my hands” .
SchNEWS 730: The Hole Truth
As SchNews reports from the new Rossport frontline There is still plenty of ire left in Ireland as campaigners ready themselves for another summer of action against Shell and their plans to despoil the coast of County Mayo with a new gas pipeline (see SchNEWS 719). The project is already a decade late and three times over budget; pretty impressive for a small community fighting one of the biggest multinationals in the world. Rossport on the newswire:
Italian company ICOP applying for tunnel tender
Italian company ICOP are currently applying for the tender to build the tunnel for the Shell onshore high pressure raw gas pipeline. The local community have been resisting Shell for the last 10 years and are fighting to protect their health, safety and environment.
Call out to Stop Shell in Ireland
Shell due to start work next week
Shell2 sea benefit, London, sat 26th June
Top line up at an affordable price for a jolly good cause
Shell to Sea Benefit gig, London Sat 26 June
Top line up at an affordable price for a jolly good cause.
London Benefit for SHELL TO SEA
video madrid-merthyr2mayo caravan solidarity event shells prisoners Castlerae
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A week of actions surrounding BEAT THE BOREHOLES campaign in Co. Mayo Ireland.
Shell''s survey work was stopped for about three hours on Monday afternoon when people walked out at low tide and got under Shell's drilling platform. This is a continuation of this summer's 'Beat the Boreholes' effort to stop Shell's Corrib Gas pipeline from being built.
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.
Yesterday 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.
The community campaign against Shell's work in the estuary is going strong with regular actions happening. Last week locals viewed the borehole-drilling rigs during a walk on the strands of the estuary at low tide. Shell moved the rigs yesterday but were slowed down by kayaker action. 
Shell are due to start drilling the boreholes in the estuary (Special Area of Conservation) from Monday 28th June until September 2010. Please come over and support the community in their fight to stop Shell destroying this incredible place!
Things are getting very busy here - after a peaceful June Gathering the camp is once more set to become a focal point for resisting Shell pipeline work. Shell are due in the estuary any day now to drill 80 boreholes - pipeline survey work that should take all summer. Yesterday we shut down the Shell office in Belmullet. Today Maura Harrington was jailed for non payment of fines. Niall and Pat are still in jail. Generally it seems that lots of people are wising up to the oil industry in the wake of the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico....
Here at Acoustic Insurgency's secret underground HQ we have decided to do something a bit different this month. 
the bike caravan stops by castlerae prison in ireland where 2 protestors, pat and neill serve their time for daring to opose Shell and the government. | << Page 10 | Page 8 >> | |
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