Shell Day of Action - Service Stations D-Locked

From an anonymous tipoff call very early in the morning two Shell service stations were found to have been D-locked and shut down for several hours on the morning of Monday 17 March 2008.

Old Street Garage

Out come the hack saws...

...as angle grinders on this lot could level the block

Holloway Road

Not open for business

Frustrated staff

To coincide with the Shell Day of Action and visiting members of the Shell To Sea campaign from County Mayo, Ireland, although no connection apart from solidarity, some activists took it upon themselves to shut down two of Shell's garages.

The service stations remained closed for several hours as frustrated staff used hack saws to remove the D-locks clamped around petrol pumps.

The Day of Action also saw Irish protestors deliver 20 metre pipeline to Shell HQ on Southbank London, and gave a lively protest.

http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/394206.html

Shell recently declared record profits for the second year running, the second time the corporation has broken all UK records for profit made by a British company, this year declaring £13.9 billion.

But the damage from this company continues to span the globe from County Mayo in Ireland, where the unfinished gas refinery construction has polluted the local water supply with high levels of aluminium, to the continuing ecological destruction of the Niger Delta, where death and disease from pollution and pipeline accidents has become a weekly occurance.

Oscar Beard
e-mail: imc.oscarbeard@googlemail.com

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That action is CRIMINAL!

19.03.2008 13:58

That action is totally criminal! You have gone too far now. You will not get away with this! That action constitutes criminal damage!

commentator

Simple but oh sooo effective!

19.03.2008 14:40

Brilliant brilliant brilliant action. simple, effective, no one gets hurt and no one gets to buy petrol from shell at the garage. hats off to whoever it was done it!

roisin
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LOL @ COMMENTATOR

19.03.2008 15:12

...the more criminal the better baybay ;-)

what sort of d-lock is that?

19.03.2008 22:08

is it a special one or just a regular one? it looks fancy.
Is it bigger than normal in size?

Bill

ha.

20.03.2008 12:05

too far?
we've only just started

ratbag

how do we define crime

22.03.2008 11:10

is the price of a comodity more valuable than the price of life...
if so then this is indeed a crime
but in case we are interested in creating some kind of safe space on this planet
(that gives everything to us for free)
this action was sweet and much respect to those who stand

its a good thing that the Earth doesnt hold court cases or we would all be in prison for being anything less than loving to our humble provider

when our hearts lead us and our walets wither
we will finally be aware that we are O-I-L..One In Love

keep up the wonderful work one and all

its hard these daze when the blinding lights of money creates such apathy amongst the masses

will they only wait for the RFID chips to realise that we are walking a very loaded agenda path
laid out with distracting things to buy along the way courtesy of greedy elite

Keep Loving as all the great activists before us have done

watch out they might crucify you for loving tooo much....love anyway

venus
Homepage: http://www.o-i-l.org

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