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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday September 18, 2011 - 13:04 by Shell to Sea
 4 comments (last - sunday october 02, 2011 - 20:55)  8 images
On Thursday last, the 15th September, Shell's private security force, IRMS continued their practice of using force on the public road as they see fit. Once again the Gardaí sat close by and witnessed this unlawful use of force by IRMS and allowed it to continue unimpeded. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / news report Saturday September 17, 2011 - 15:11 by Teresa Treacy Support Group.
20 comments (last - thursday october 06, 2011 - 22:21) 5 images
On Wednesday the 14th of September, concerned individuals wishing to support Teresa Treacy arrived at Clonmore, Tullamore. The following morning the supporters learned that no tree felling would be carried out that week and ESB workers had been instructed to leave the site. On the morning of Saturday the 17th of September, Teresa rang from the prison to say that her spirits had been lifted by the news. She has her own cell in the prison thanks to the good graces of the prison staff. After her initial shock she is settling in. She said she has no intention of 'purging her contempt' and is calling out for support. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday September 14, 2011 - 18:50 by j debender
4 comments (last - saturday september 17, 2011 - 12:21) 15 images
Tuesday 13th September six people from the Rossport Solidarity Camp went down to Shell's tunnelling compound in Aughoose, Co. Mayo to disrupt work. Work was slowed from three separate actions spread over 2 hours as people interfered with fencing work and then two people got up on a tractor making a delivery to the compound. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / news report Monday September 12, 2011 - 19:57 by Niall Harnett
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Teresa Treacy, a 65 year old woman from Tullamore, Co Offaly has been ordered to jail by High Court Judge Daniel Herbert at the request of the ESB. Ms Treacy, who shares the family farm with her sister Mary at Woodfield House, Clonmore, Tullamore, Co Offaly has refused the ESB access to her lands in order to protect the natural environment and the native trees that she has managed there for many years. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday September 05, 2011 - 17:46 by Ciaron
5 comments (last - thursday september 29, 2011 - 09:49)
We are ten years into a war on Aghanistan, 20 years into a war on Iraq and 250+ daze into the confinement without charge of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has done so much to expose the true nature of these wars. Wars that have no end date, no popular support and presently little visible opposition. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Friday August 26, 2011 - 20:12 by j debender
2 comments (last - wednesday august 31, 2011 - 16:49) 10 images
Between lock-ons, mass trespasses, lorry climbing and a breach of security at Shell's refinery, this week brought a lot of people out protesting. Locals who haven't been out on the roads in years have come out this week, and momentum is building. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Friday August 26, 2011 - 11:06 by Rossport SC
4 comments (last - friday august 26, 2011 - 18:20) 11 images  1 video file
Local Shell to Sea campaigners and their supporters at Rossport Solidarity Camp are resting after another bizarre day of lows, highs and outright idiocy during their ongoing protest against Shell in co. Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Friday August 26, 2011 - 00:04 by Fritz Watson
3 comments (last - saturday september 10, 2011 - 08:08)
He called aggressive war "the greatest menace of our times." International law defines crimes against peace as "planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of wars of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing." All US post-WW II wars fall under this definition. ........ ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday August 24, 2011 - 08:04 by Frank
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Today 25 people from Rossport Solidarity Camp sustained a barrage of actions against the site Shell is preparing for its tunnel boring machine. Despite 80 security and three vans of gardaí they were unable to keeps the protesters out. In the chaos that ensued one person got through the lines to d-lock themselves to one of the diggers and remained up there stopping work for 4 hours. Elsewhere other diggers had to stop working as protestors approached. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday August 21, 2011 - 23:44 by Kurdistan Solidarity Ireland
Seven civilians killed by Turkish actions across the Iraqi border which have been targeting Kurdish positions for five days. The Turkish action has been met by silence from the international communty and media. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday August 03, 2011 - 17:27 by j debender
4 comments (last - wednesday august 03, 2011 - 23:04) 20 images
On Tuesday 2nd August Shell's work was halted for most of the day, only two tractors getting into the Aughoose compound by 3.30pm. There was a heavily increased garda presence with up to 40 guards being drafted in from Roscommon and elsewhere, and four arrests were made. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday August 03, 2011 - 12:28 by Bob
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This week saw Shell begin the next stage of their gas project by attempting to extend and secure their compound in Aughoose in preparation to lay the onshore section of the pipeline. This entailed tractors delivering fencing, machinery and other things for them to carry out the work. If all had gone to plan would have had the compound near completion now. However, there was five days of 12 hour blockades which has slowed them down tremendously. Here's a quick round up of the events of last week... ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday July 31, 2011 - 16:53 by Mick O'Broin
3 comments (last - tuesday august 09, 2011 - 15:28) 1 image
This article summarizes how NAMA works, what’s wrong with it and suggests how we can fight back against it. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Friday July 29, 2011 - 10:15 by Andrew
1 comment (last - friday july 29, 2011 - 11:35)
The Shell to Sea national day of action is now in progress in Erris with a WSM member at the scene reporting that all work has been stopped, several fences have been pulled down and up to 30 people are now occupying Shell's compound. This despite the deployment of large number of private security who along with Garda have assaulted campaigners in a failed attempt to stop them gaining access to the site. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Friday July 29, 2011 - 00:16 by j debender
4 comments (last - monday august 01, 2011 - 20:50) 6 images 1 video file
From 7am to 7pm on Thursday, the road between Shell's Bellanaboy refinery and the Aughoose compound was virtually shut down by local residents and supporters from the Rossport Solidarity Camp. Between a person sat on top of a tractor and then a tripod in the morning, a blockade of the scaffolding company responsible for getting the tripod removed, then a mass of people blocking the road outside the refinery in the afternoon, it was a brilliantly successful day. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Thursday July 28, 2011 - 15:49 by j debender
2 comments (last - thursday july 28, 2011 - 17:05) 5 images
On Wednesday 27th July two people locked their arms into a concrete barrel or 'lock-on,' blocking the road between Shell's Bellanaboy refinery and the tunnelling compound in Aughoose. This stretch of road has been the focus of the protests this week with protesters on bikes and on foot blocking tractors in addition to the tripods and lock-ons. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday July 26, 2011 - 11:35 by j debender
7 comments (last - tuesday july 26, 2011 - 21:21) 18 images
Monday 25th July Shell intended to begin constructing a permanent compound in Aughoose from which to begin laying the offshore pipeline. However in a statement to Midwest radio Shell commented that works had been 'severely impeded' on Monday. Between a 5½ hour tripod blockade in the morning and loads of protesters on bicycles and on foot, the roads remained shut down for quite a lot of the day. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Monday July 25, 2011 - 08:15 by Rossport
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At 6.59 this morning a tripod was erected on the road between Shell's Ballinaboy refinery and their compound at Aughosse, Co Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Friday July 22, 2011 - 14:26 by Andrew
1 comment (last - friday july 22, 2011 - 21:06)
Rossport Solidarity Camp is reporting that this morning Shell started work at the compound in Aughoose where they intend to start digging the tunnel to house a section of the experimental high pressure raw gas pipeline that has been opposed for a decade by the local community. ... read full story / add a comment
leitrim / environment / news report Thursday July 14, 2011 - 19:09 by Contaminated Crow
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Over 60 people attended a meeting of those opposed to proposed gas fracking in the north-west at the Mayflower in Drumshambo, Co. Leitrim on the night of July 12th. The major concerns raised at the meeting were organisational, with the –still nameless- group agreeing to the formation of a ‘core group which isn’t called a core group’.
Editor: Fracking is technology used for extracting natural gas trapped in rocks underground and is the process of forcing liquids and solids into the rock and forcing it to crack and thereby releasing the gas. Fracking liquids can cause pollution and the process of cracking the rock can significantly drop the water table and dry out huge areas.It has many other problems including exponential fall-off in production from year 1. ... read full story / add a comment |
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