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Sunday April 30, 2006 18:17 by Shell to Sea
Sunday Times says Shell's Mayo pipeline is going rusty. Shell recently made a big deal out of covering and securing the pipes which are lying around in Mayo, so that the weather can't do any more damage to them. However the rest of the experimental pipeline is rusting away in Donegal it seems... The Sunday Times - Ireland |
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The Rossport Five, who went to jail last year for their protests against a planned Shell gas pipeline in Ireland, have warned that the company will need army protection if it does not change its plans.
If the quotes in the first article is even somewhat accurate then Vincent McGrath should be more careful what he says :-/. There may be precedent and they may be the aggressor but don't take it to the next step before they do?
Shell gas field protesters threaten to turn Ireland into a new Nigeria
'Rossport Five' warn that more local people are ready to go to jail over plans to pipe raw gas across their land
By Tim Webb
Published: 30 April 2006
The Rossport Five, who went to jail last year for their protests against a planned Shell gas pipeline in Ireland, have warned that the company will need army protection if it does not change its plans.
Vincent McGrath spent 94 days in jail with four other County Mayo landowners over their campaign against the Corrib gas project. He told The Independent on Sunday that more protesters, including women and children, would be prepared to go to jail to try to stop the pipeline going ahead.
The two sides have held two mediation sessions in the past two months to find a compromise, but Mr McGrath said little progress had been made.
The campaign will next focus on the company's annual shareholder meeting in a fortnight. Mr McGrath said he and other protesters had recently become shareholders and were considering attending the meeting...
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article3609...4.ece