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Home | Friday 26th June 2009 | Issue 681

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PLAYING SOLITAIRE

Anti-Shell protesters in Rossport, County Mayo, Ireland are gearing up for renewed action as their shore-to-ship monitoring shows that Shell’s contracted pipe laying ship, the Solitaire, is steaming their way. 

The Solitaire, the largest ship of it’s kind in the world, is coming back for its second go at entering Broadhaven Bay to lay the offshore part of the gas pipeline - last year it was repelled from the area by a combination of the weather and a flotilla of gutsy activists in rubber dinghies (See SchNEWS 647).

This time, 300 extra Gardai have been called in to provide extra muscle for the regular private security thugs and Shell have declared a 500m exclusion zone on apparently imaginary legal grounds. 

All are encouraged to get out there and join the David and Goliath struggle to protect the west coast of Ireland – see www.corribsos.com

Keywords: broadhaven bay, county mayo, direct action, gardai, ireland, rossport, shell, solitaire


 

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