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Urgent: Help Needed to Stop Dangerous Oil Pipeline in Co. Mayo, Ireland

nfn | 18.08.2005 11:17 | Ecology | Repression | Liverpool

Have you got free time over the summer? Please consider going to over to Ireland to join the Rossport Solidarity Camp in County Mayo. The local community needs as much help as it can get to fight the construction of a dangerous oil
pipeline. Five local farmers are currently in prison for blocking access to their land. This fight is winnable - but it needs support.

Boycott Shell - Free the Rossport 5
Boycott Shell - Free the Rossport 5


Rossport Solidarity Week August 22-26

You can find all the info about the camp and the Solidarity Week (including a wish-list of equipment needed) here  http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=219
and here:  http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=208

Read on for the background and other ways to help. Please circulate this information.

BOYCOTT SHELL - FREE THE ROSSPORT FIVE
Five Irish farmers have spent more than 50 days in prison for blocking the construction of an oil pipeline on their land:

"We are currently in prison for refusing to allow Shell and their Irish Government partners build a pipeline close to our family homes. Our crime was to refuse access to our lands. We have refused access because of the certainty that if this pipeline as currently proposed ruptures we, our families and neighbours, will die.

What would you do if a court ordered you to accept the installation of a potentially lethal pipeline which no state agency has or will take responsibility for? ... "

Continue reading Open Letter from the Rossport 5:
 http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=205

In Mayo Shell and Statoil, with the approval of the Irish government, are planning to take land from local residents and build a high pressure gas pipeline that will go past their houses:

The pressure inside the pipeline will be up to four times greater than that of the biggest Bord Gais pipelines. The pipeline will be going through boggy land with a history of landslides. This construction will be using previously
untried methods to stabilise the bog surface and involve a massive amount of traffic. Emissions from the refinery will affect the nearby Carrowmore Lake, source of the regional water supply. ... The government is giving them our gas for
practically nothing and then we will have to buy it back .

Continue reading about the impact of the pipeline at:
 http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=2&type=page


WAYS TO HELP:

*Boycott Shell!

*Write to Shell & Statoil:
-  irish-corporate@shell.com / 01 6368100
-  info@statoil.com

*Contact Marine Minister NoelDempsey
- Dail Eireann, Dublin
- Phone 046- 9431146 | Fax 046 - 9436643 |
-  info@noeldempsey.ie

*Contact the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
- Dail Eireann, Dublin (01) 6624888 | (01)
-  taoiseach@taoiseach.irlgov.ie

*Write/visit and express solidarity to prisoners Willie Corduff, Philip McGrath, Brendan Philbin, Vincent McGrath and Michael O'Suighin at
- Cloverhill prison, Clondalkin, Dublin 22.
- Messages of support: Sister Bernadette: (01) 6304584/(85)(86)

*Donate to the family and campaign expenses.
- Account Name: The Rossport Five Fund
- Bank: Ulster Bank
- Address: Main Street, Belmullet, Co Mayo
- Sort Code: 98-53-14 Account Number: 23987020

- For International Transfers also use:
- Bank ID: ULSBIE2D IBAN: IE74 ULSB 9853 1423 9870 20

*Highlight the issue in the regional, national & intl. media.
Get your Union, Community Group, Church Group, Association, Council etc. to formally support the Shell to Sea campaign.

*Distribute posters, flyers etc.

- A4 Flyer : http://www.spunout.ie/uploads/files/ShellFlyer1.pdf
- A6 Flyer  http://www.spunout.ie/uploads/files/MayoFlyer.pdf
- A4 Poster  http://www.spunout.ie/uploads/files/Mayoposter.pdf
- Get involved poster  http://www.spunout.ie/uploads/files/Shellgetinvolved.pdf
- FreeTheFive Car poster  http://www.spunout.ie/uploads/files/Freethe5.pdf
- Boycott Car poster  http://www.spunout.ie/uploads/files/Boycott.pdf
- Justice for Rossport 5  http://www.spunout.ie/uploads/files/Rossport5Poster.pdf (takes a while to load)

- Are you a designer? Can you design more?  info@corribsos.com

*Fundraise! The Rossport campaign and camp needs funds.

*Visit/help the Mayo Solidarity camp Donate food, money, bikes and supplies. Latest info from the camp:
 http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=24&type=event

*Organise meetings, protests, blockades.

*Sign online petition. -  http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/shelltosea

*Download print version & distribute  http://www.spunout.ie/uploads/files/ShelltoSeapetition.pdf

*Host stalls, flyers, petitions, banners at festivals and in the community.

nfn
- e-mail: info@shelltosea.com
- Homepage: http://www.shelltosea.com

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