ESB Stopped at Clonmore. Teresa Treacy still defiant.

by Pat Kavanagh - Fís Nua Sat Sep 17, 2011 17:51

Maybe, with any luck, the pending sell-out of the ESB will focus their attentions elsewhere for the time being until support for Teresa Tracey and her land and trees can be harnessed

by A McCabe Sat Sep 17, 2011 19:06

Fair play to Teresa Treacey - Ireland is sadly lacking in trees.

by W. Finnerty Sat Sep 17, 2011 20:47

There is probably only one peaceful way by which people everywhere can achieve and maintain real emancipation from the injustices being wreaked by today's politicians, judiciaries, and the general encroachments of bullying governments worldwide: it is by the restoration of Courts of Trial by Jury.

Only then are we likely to see the elimination of unjust, antidemocratic legislation which is at present being powerfully supported by the main weapon of despotic governments everywhere: the trial-by-judge.

"Jury nullification occurs in a trial when a jury reaches a verdict contrary to the judge's instructions as to the law." (From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification )

by hello Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:15

I am just wondering if Teresa has checked all the documentation (wayleave notice) she received regarding this110kv line.

Does it clearly state there will be a 50 metre wide corridor through her private lands requiring 12 acres of her property and 12,000 trees to be felled.

Ive read through the 1927 Act section 53 which deals with wayleaves across lands but I didnt see any mention of a 50m clearance.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1927/en/act/pub/0027/sec...sec53.

Im not a lawyer but this thought has struck me. It may be well worth getting good legal advice on all of this.

by support for treasa Mon Sep 19, 2011 14:38

saw another comment about this,it would appear that eirgrid dont actually have any "powers" under the 1927 electricity act to go on to private property.So therefore Eirgrid are treaspassing,ask them to get out right away and release this woman immediatly,put the dam wire underground and be done with it.Stick to your guns treasa!!

by Cathal - Ireland Mon Sep 19, 2011 14:46

Can we make it VERY CLEAR that all concerned people who read of Teresa's plight on this website or elsewhere need to TAKE ACTION. Whether that action is writing to Teresa or writing to their local govt. rep. or whatever, people must take action. If any astute people can provide a list of the most effective types of action here, that would be very useful.

If you read this article and say "Oh thats terrible" and take no action you are inviting such treatment by these dictators on Irish People in the future. The time really has come for People to stand up and grow up, not to be dictated to but to dictate. These so-called government bodies are servants of the people. These so-called judges are sworn to uphold the Law of the Land and are servants of the People. They have forgotten this. We need to remind them and courteously help them down from their pedestal . Get angry and TAKE ACTION. They cannot trample over people as they are attempting to do with Teresa. It is wrong, immoral and unjust and every Irish Man and Woman has a moral and compassionate obligation to fight for this 65 year old Irish Woman currently penned into some hole of cell in dublin city. How bad does it actually have to get? Does it have to be your son or daughter, a relative or a friend? I say She is your relative, she is your Sister.

Can anyone provide a list of actions that People can take to help Teresa and maybe provide them as a comment here or include them in an update article at IndyMedia on Teresa's plight,

sincerely
a concerned Irish Man

by W. Finnerty Mon Sep 19, 2011 18:49

In cases like this, huffing and puffing of the "Oh that's terrible" kind, seems to be of very little use on its own.

It appears to to me that this entirely peaceful 65 year old woman has now provided us all with a very useful platform to confront public officials and bodies who seem to enjoy abusing their powers with impunity: IF, that is, large numbers of us take advantage (in a timely manner) of the opportunity she has provided.

They've been getting away with their abuses and violations of the law for long enough now, and the time has come (I believe) when the tide should be turned back in favour of the millions of the Republic of Ireland citizens who are not members of the "ruling elite" cliques.

For myself, I made mention (within a long list of other issues) earlier today of Teresa's plight in an e-mail I sent to all sixty of our Senators. For detailed information on this particular piece of "action", please click on the following link:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/24thSeanadMembers/19S...reacy

by John Kelly Mon Sep 19, 2011 22:58

It is a full week since Teresa was jailed, like the Rossport 5, with no jury and no release date ! Known elsewhere as internment perhaps.

The Irish Times have four letters re her case for the letters page, the letters are under "consideration" for publication.

People should write in, they done I believe, a half ok ed last week, much as I am not an IT fan, the letters page is widely read and is persuasive.

Maybe pickets on ESB HQ ? BTW I am told they share a building with that venerable institution ANGLO IRISH BANK !

by agree Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:56

agree with last comment,protest outside prison and also more importantly outside esb and eirgrid head offices.where may i ask are the groups representing similar projects all round the country? their silence is deafning, groups like the ones in meath where thousands turned out to support them when asked to do so? Where are they now? doing deals behind closed doors ? Where are the farm organisations on all this? Is it ok to put this person in jail as long as its not an IFA member? Thank you Ms Treacy for what you are doing,you have guts,ill give you that.

by update Tue Sep 20, 2011 17:01

Are the ESB or EirGrid workers back at work on Ms Treacy's land or has the work ground completely to a halt?
Can we have an update please?

Jailing a lady like this is an utter outrage and disgrace. SHAME on all those involved.

Where is the justice system that tells us we are entitled to own our property and to live peacefully upon it?

Are we not called upon as citizens of Ireland and Europe to protect our environment our culture and our heritage? Arent we encouraged to plant more tress to make our country greener and keep our air clean?

Why does all that go out the window to suit these HV powerlines that should be buried down in ducts along the side of the main roads?

Bury the power line and just get on with it

by Supporter Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:22

Click on event notice here for details of upcoming vigil in support of Teresa : http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100554

by Elected Wed Sep 21, 2011 18:34

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by John Lawlor - Indy Sun Sep 25, 2011 04:49

We are in the closing months of the UN International Year of the Forest. This is a time when our whole Planet is on the edge of irreversible Climate change which threatens our very existence. Never before has the importance of the Tree been so high to civilization. The tree naturally converts global warming gases such as carbon dioxide into oxygen rectifying a large part of the problem. All trees do this. A small forest does this. Ireland has the lowest percentage of tree cover in all of Europe. We are in poverty for Trees especially broadleaf trees, the kind Ms Tracey has been nurturing in abundance. We are in a time when Energy companies throughout the World have been asked to turn their electricity making Industry into a carbon free or low carbon one. All energy companies have been asked to convert production of energy from unsustainable means to sustainable ones. The ESB is still highly unsustainable, burning large amounts of fossil fuels in oil and gas. With this case we have an Irish Energy company cutting down thousands of trees (300 so far and the job is not nearly done) , a grossly unsustainable act in itself, to lay power lines for energy that is still heavily fossil fuel reliant. It is a gross, gross act of irresponsibility and misuse of your taxpaying monies and a gross insult to the population of the planet. The ESB know that in this act they have carried out a PR disaster which, if it gets out into the International press, will do untold damage to their International reputation. This woman over thirty years, maybe more, has manifested an heroic miracle which should be replicated throughout the land if our so called great love for (all) life is to be expressed. What can we do? Boycott a dirty Industry and favour a clean one. Exercise your power of choice and withdraw your support for this company by changing your energy provider. Its never been easier than it is today. The Judiciary by its ruling continues to show total ignorance of International Environmental law and they are continuing to interpret the laws they know, to the letter, totally ignoring the spirit of Irish law. What can we do? Write a letter to the Minister of Justice and call for the spirit of Irish law to be once again a critical part of Law Judgement in this country. Demand that the shameful position we hold, where we are the only country of the original signatories of the Aarhus Convention who have not ratified it, be reversed by immediately signing this convention into Irish Law. If we had already ratified the convention the lady would not be in prison, for the opening lines of the UN Law states '‘In order to contribute to the protection
of the right of every person of present and future generations to live in an environment adequate to his or her health and well being, each Party(Gov/ment)shall guarantee the rights of access to information, public
participation in decision making, and access to justice in environmental matters in accordance with the provisions of this Convention.’ Teresa Tracey is an heroic person, the ESB is a blind bullying force and the Judiciary are an uninformed elite shrinking the spirit of their own people through the making of BAD Judgement.

Vigil Volunteers at Mountjoy Prison, Dublin fri 23rd sept 2011

by emc Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:46

It's a disgrace putting teresa in jail, the comment is right people need to make an issue of this. We are all going through this in different parts of Ireland, Donegal, Meath, Monaghan, Cork, Galway in fact the majority of counties. EVERYONE involved in these groups needs to make their feelings clear to their public representatives. If everyone email or writes or phones the public representatives they cannot ignore everyone. Urge your friends and neighbours to do this. Or make up a standard email and send it out to all your members, friends etc to forward on to the politicians. PLEASE WAKEN UP AND HELP TERESA.

by Donegal ATP - Donegal Alternatives to Pylons Tue Sep 27, 2011 23:51 donegalatp at gmail dot com

It's a disgrace that Teresa Treacy is still in prison - is there a pickett? When is the next one? We will support you.
The energy companies cannot be allowed to destroy the country like the construction developers did.
Here is a link to the email addresses of the members of the Oireachtas -
see http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=18649&CatID=138
and here is a sample email to send to the members of the Oireachtas -

A Chara,

I am writing to you to demand that you take action to secure the immediate release of Teresa Treacy.
She must be released without having to purge her 'contempt of court' for trying to protect her human rights.

All across Ireland our constitutional rights and our environmental laws are being broken by the ESB/Eirgrid.

People will suffer from cancers and ill-health in the future due to having high voltage power lines overground in proximity to their homes.

We need an open debate on our national energy policy. If not, our countryside will be destroyed by energy developers as reckless as the developers who bankrupt the country.

The Government must compel these energy companies to put high voltage power lines and other utilities underground and alongside existing main roads.

Teresa Treacy must be released immediately!

I look forward to your response.

Yours Sincerely, etc

by Sally Wed Sep 28, 2011 17:17

I think the all the suggestions listed on this website, such as sending letters of support to Teresa and contacting the Oireachtas is good.
I also found this online petition. Please sign it, forward on the link to your friends.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/free-teresa-treacy-....html

by countryman Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:32

it is very wrong that this woman is locked away in prison for standing up for herself ,what she is doing is for all of us and while i agree fully with a protest outside the prison,i really think there should be a major protest outside esb and also eirgrids office.

by James McNulty Wed Oct 05, 2011 00:58

Can someone explain this to me please? They put Teresa in jail for not allowing the ESB/Eirgrid onto her land, with the stipulation that she won't be released until she purges her contempt. Yet Eirgrid moved in immediately she was jailed. Was the intention to jail Teresa until she had purged her contempt or just until Eirgrid had finished their work on her land? If it's the latter, was Teresa not falsely jailed? Thoughts?

by juno - irish electromagnetic radiation victims network Thu Oct 06, 2011 22:07

Teresa Treacy's heroic stand is inspiring and proof that we are no longer going to passively accept the dictates of energy companies. Many people have died of cancer due to proximity to high power lines. This is an opportunity to widen the debate to include the oppressive tyranny of mobile phone companies whose masts have decimated communities throughout Ireland.

Electrical fields and magnetic fields interact.
Non-ionising microwave radiation ( emitted by mobile phones) is on the electromagnetic radiation continuum. Strong electrical fields and microwave radiation also interact. An electric generator is needed to power and strengthen the signal of the base station mast.. Electromagnetic radiation - produced by power lines, and microwave radiation - emitted by mobile phones and masts both cause cancer, blood disorders and depression/ suicide. The immune system is destroyed and whatever genetic weakness exists comes to the fore.

A nationwide debate is long overdue in this country about the serious and proven adverse health effects of electromagnetic and microwave radiation. Pylons and mobile phone masts saturate this land. We have an epidemic of cancer and suicide particularly among our young people.

There are thousands of people who have developed chronic radiation sickness and electrosensitivity as a result of forced involuntary exposure to microwave radiation ( mobile phone antenna masts ) and strong electromagnetic fields ( high voltage power lines).

In at least four instances in Ireland that I know of, and the actual figure is far higher, young children developed leukaemia and brain tumours from having masts put beside their homes. All lived in poor areas.

What kind of sick society have we become when our government is allowing our children to die in this way all because of a dependence on revenue from the mobile phone companies?

What kind of sick society have we got when a pensioner is imprisoned for refusing to be exposed to a known carcinogen? Undergrounding the cables might have cost marginally more but instead a semi-state company chose to imprison an elderly citizen just for standing up for her rights.

If we live in a democracy it is time that the government came clean and acknowledged the damage that overhead powers lines, mobile phone masts and mobile phones are doing to the health of the men women and children of Ireland.

by juno - es-uk Thu Oct 06, 2011 22:21

for the inconvenient truth and body count - human and all wildlife - check out www.bioinitiative report 2007 and websites of powerwatch, radiation research trust and es-uk (electrosensitivity uk)