All Shell Deliveries Halted for the Morning

Week­ly Tues­day morn­ing protest turns into a sucess­ful block­ade

Out­side the gates of Shel­l’s Bel­lan­aboy refin­ery in Mayo on Tues­day 18th Octo­ber, some­one got on top of a trac­tor, block­ing all Shell deliv­er­ies for the morn­ing.

Week­ly Tues­day morn­ing protest turns into a sucess­ful block­ade

Out­side the gates of Shel­l’s Bel­lan­aboy refin­ery in Mayo on Tues­day 18th Octo­ber, some­one got on top of a trac­tor, block­ing all Shell deliv­er­ies for the morn­ing.

At 8am on Tues­day, about 15 peo­ple gath­ered at the gates of Bel­lan­aboy refin­ery for the week­ly local protest that has been hap­pen­ing the last cou­ple months.

The first trac­tor that Shell tried to bring out was stopped by the pro­test­ers, and one per­son got onto the cab. This blocked all Shell traf­fic but local traf­fic was still able to squeeze by, as guards and pro­test­ers direct­ed them around the stopped trac­tor. All the trucks of stone which Shell have begun bring­ing to the Augh­oose com­pound were also stopped and turned back in the direc­tion they came.

Even­tu­al­ly the per­son on the trac­tor got down and was not arrest­ed. Peo­ple stayed in the road block­ing the trac­tor for the rest of the morn­ing protest, until 10:30am.

There haven’t been as many actions com­ing from the Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp late­ly, as there has been so much work to do mov­ing the camp from the field it has been in for the sum­mer and set­ting up the win­ter camp down the road. How­ev­er Shell has said it expects to begin peat removal from the tun­nelling com­pound at the end of Octo­ber, which will mean up to 475 truck move­ments a day (so stay tuned).

Come up and see the cozy new win­ter camp, vis­i­tors are always wel­come! We are still locat­ed in Augh­oose but fur­ther down the road towards Pul­lath­omas, near Augh­oose church. There is still plen­ty of work build­ing the new camp to be done along with actions.

On the Hal­loween week­end, there will be a week­end of direct action themed work­shops at the new Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp.  If you are inter­est­ed in com­ing down or even run­ning a work­shop, let us know by email on rossportsolidaritycamp@gmail.com

Also there will be a Day of Sol­i­dar­i­ty on Fri­day, the 11th of Novem­ber to mark 5 years since the baton charge and the major cam­paign of Gar­da vio­lence began here in Mayo. Please come and show your sup­port.