The project has recently been further delayed, with half of the proposed on-shore pipeline route deemed as posing an unnacceptable risk to the local community. Shell have been asked by the planning board to go away & design a new route by February. This will probably go through the bay which they had previously ruled out on environmental & technical grounds.
There is still a lot of fight left in this campaign & works on a new route; if given permission probably won't start till June. That gives us lots of time to plan & prepare a solid resistance. The local community need our help as much as ever so please come along to the gathering; meet people involved in the struggle & plot how to take on one of the biggest multinationals in the world!!
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