Category: Oil

Hot off the press and packed with Direct Action — the new Earth First! Action Update is out!

Rebel­lion, a spark in search of a pow­der keg — the new Action Update is out, the quar­ter­ly round-up of eco­log­i­cal direct action from the UK and beyond.

What’s in this issue?

EF! gathering '07 logo (rabbit/fence)Rebel­lion, a spark in search of a pow­der keg — the new Action Update is out, the quar­ter­ly round-up of eco­log­i­cal direct action from the UK and beyond.

What’s in this issue?
Old King Coal meets his Match, but the Nuclear Empire Strikes Back! Read tales of flotil­las, bish­op-bash­ing, block­ades and occu­pa­tions as the Rebel Alliance takes on the Empire. The rebels have also been hang­ing around in nets and on plat­forms, occu­py­ing and lock­ing-on at coal ter­mi­nals, and pas­sion­ate­ly attack­ing pow­er sta­tion fences around the world, try­ing to shut ’em down. Main­shill protest camp con­tin­ues to pro-active­ly resist open-cast min­ing — they climb, occu­py, and by night, anony­mous pix­ies sab­o­tage. Who knows when they sleep — with a strong alliance with local vil­lagers, they wel­come YOU to come and play any­time, with a gath­er­ing at the end of Octo­ber.

Want more? Radio-tow­ers top­pled, dams and trucks seized, naked oil streaks and green smears in defence of the wild, a shit dumped with shit…resistance to peat min­ing, genet­ic engi­neer­ing, log­ging and Shell in Ire­land, and for Ves­tas wind tur­bine fac­to­ry and work­ers on the Isle of Wight.

Still not enough? Stop­ping Tesco, cli­mate cam­paign­ing suc­cess­es, run­way inva­sions, more eco­tage, and the EF! Win­ter Moot, plus con­tacts and upcom­ing dates.

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Activists drop 70′ banner off of NIAGARA FALLS to tell Canadian PM ‘NO TAR SANDS oil!’

A small team of cli­mate activists rap­pelled from the US obser­va­tion deck at Nia­gara Falls. Dan­gling hun­dreds of feet above the ground, they sent a spe­cial wel­come mes­sage to Cana­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Stephen Harp­er ahead of his first offi­cial vis­it to the White House to push dirty Tar Sands oil.

Tar Sands OilA small team of cli­mate activists rap­pelled from the US obser­va­tion deck at Nia­gara Falls. Dan­gling hun­dreds of feet above the ground, they sent a spe­cial wel­come mes­sage to Cana­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Stephen Harp­er ahead of his first offi­cial vis­it to the White House to push dirty Tar Sands oil.

Dur­ing Harper’s first offi­cial trip to meet Oba­ma in the U.S., the two lead­ers are expect­ed to dis­cuss cli­mate change and ener­gy pol­i­cy ahead of the upcom­ing G20 Sum­mit. Cana­da sup­plies 19% of U.S. oil imports, more than half of which now comes from the tar sands, mak­ing the region the largest sin­gle source of U.S. oil imports. The expan­sion of the tar sands will strip mine an area the size of Flori­da. Com­plete with sky­rock­et­ing rates of can­cer (by 400%!) for First Nations com­mu­ni­ties liv­ing down­stream, bro­ken treaties, tox­ic belch­ing lakes so large you can see them from out­er space, churn­ing up ancient bore­al for­est, destroyed air and water qual­i­ty, the tar sands have been called the most destruc­tive project on Earth.

For the full sto­ry and more infor­ma­tion vis­it http://understory.ran.org/2009/09/15/breaking-activists-drop-70-banner-off-of-niagra-falls-to-tell-canadian-pm-no-tar-sands-oil/

Naked Protest at Oil Conference

On the first day of Off­shore Europe Exhi­bi­tion 2009, Tues­day 8th Sep­tem­ber, at the world’s sec­ond largest oil con­fer­ence, , two cli­mate change pro­test­ers shocked vis­i­tors with a naked protest.

On the first day of Off­shore Europe Exhi­bi­tion 2009, Tues­day 8th Sep­tem­ber, at the world’s sec­ond largest oil con­fer­ence, , two cli­mate change pro­test­ers shocked vis­i­tors with a naked protest.

The aim of the protest was to expose the naked truth of the con­tra­dic­tions between Scotland’s cli­mate change pol­i­cy and its con­tin­ued oil explo­ration and pro­duc­tion, and to high­light Scotland’s poten­tial to lead the way on alter­na­tive ener­gies.

The pro­test­ers undressed, cov­ered them­selves in an oil-like sub­stance and dis­played a ban­ner read­ing ‘Cli­mate Stinkers Uncov­ered’. They then walked through the entire exhi­bi­tion to smiles, laughs and cam­era flash­es from the oth­er atten­dees. The protest was cut short by a group of secu­ri­ty guards who encir­cled the pro­test­ers.

One of the pro­test­ers, Tilly Gif­ford, 23, said ‘Scot­land is com­mit­ted to 80% emis­sions cuts, but oil is wreck­ing our cli­mate’.

Young artist and activist, Louis Gal­loway, 25, shout­ed ‘With­out real cuts to oil con­sump­tion, the Scot­tish Cli­mate Bill is noth­ing more than the Emperor’s New Clothes’.

An Aberdeen Police inspec­tor, Dave Cham­bers, com­ment­ed, ‘these were not the actions of nor­mal human beings’.

The pro­test­ers were arrest­ed and held overnight in the cen­tral Aberdeen police sta­tion. Both will appear in the Aberdeen Sher­iff Court on Wednes­day morn­ing (today).

EF! summer gathering — exact location, travel info & updated workshop programme announced; coal-blighted communities visit

Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing, 18th-24th August 2009, Cum­bria

Nev­er has halt­ing the destruc­tion of our plan­et been so impor­tant… Learn how to make them stop!

The gath­er­ing this year will be held at Seath­waite in the beau­ti­ful Bor­row­dale. The site is right in the heart of the Lake Dis­trict and sur­round­ed by moun­tains, streams and tarns. The near­est train sta­tion is Pen­rith. More detailed direc­tions, pub­lic trans­port, walks & cycle rides to the site

Work­shop pro­gramme in a vari­ety of for­mats

EF!-rabbit-in-canoeEarth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing, 18th-24th August 2009, Cum­bria

Nev­er has halt­ing the destruc­tion of our plan­et been so impor­tant… Learn how to make them stop!

The gath­er­ing this year will be held at Seath­waite in the beau­ti­ful Bor­row­dale. The site is right in the heart of the Lake Dis­trict and sur­round­ed by moun­tains, streams and tarns. The near­est train sta­tion is Pen­rith. More detailed direc­tions, pub­lic trans­port, walks & cycle rides to the site

Work­shop pro­gramme in a vari­ety of for­mats

WHO
Earth First! is a net­work of peo­ple and cam­paigns who fight eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion and the forces dri­ving it. We believe in doing it our­selves rather than rely­ing on gov­ern­ments or indus­try. Direct action is at the heart of what we do, whether we’re stand­ing in front of a bull­doz­er, shut­ting down an open­cast mine or rip­ping up a field of GM crops.

Join us for 5 days of work­shops, net­work­ing and plan­ning actions at a low impact eco-liv­ing camp organ­ised non-hier­ar­chi­cal­ly

WHAT
Plan­ning actions and cam­paigns, meet­ing and shar­ing skills with oth­ers who care. Over 80 train­ing work­shops plus games and evening fun:
• Learn skills for direct action. Tree Climb­ing, Ori­en­teer­ing, Secu­ri­ty for activists, Legal brief­ing, Escap­ing pub­lic order sit­u­a­tions, street medics – first aid, self defence, Boat blockad­ing using kayaks, radio pro­ce­dures and rock abseil­ing.
• Net­work your cam­paign against eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion. open­cast min­ing, genet­ic engi­neer­ing, agro­fu­els, dam-build­ing, hunt-sab­bing, cli­mate actions, oil pipeline resis­tance, road stop­ping, anti-whal­ing, squat­ting, rain­for­est pro­tec­tion.
• Learn about ecol­o­gy, eco­cen­tric ethics and alter­na­tives to the cor­po­rate world of exploita­tion.
• Prac­ti­cal skills for eco­log­i­cal restora­tion and sus­tain­able liv­ing, field trips and hands-on work.

YOU
We are all crew! This is your gath­er­ing come pre­pared to help run the camp and con­tribute to the pro­gramme. Con­tact us in advance with ideas for work­shops, help with organ­is­ing the gath­er­ing, come ear­ly to help set­up the site or stay on for a cou­ple of days for take­down.
If you can help get in touch!

BRING
Bring tent and sleep­ing bag. You can either cook food for your­self or for £4 per day chip in with col­lec­tive cook­ing of deli­cious veg­an organ­ic food. There’ll be qui­et sleep­ing areas, toi­lets and run­ning water, a children’s space and spaces for work­shops and info stalls.
Veg­gies will pro­vide veg­an cake and snacks. Chil­dren and young adults wel­come with sub­si­dized meals.

Arrive Tues pm. Work­shops from Wed am until Sun pm.

Loads of cam­paigns are tak­ing to the water in defence of the plan­et, like at Ross­port where Shell are try­ing to lay onshore pipelines and the Great Rebel Raft Regat­ta at last sum­mers cli­mate camp. This sum­mer’s EF! gath­er­ing will be build­ing on these tac­tics with train­ing in water based actions.

An excur­sion to vis­it com­mu­ni­ties in the North East threat­ened by an expan­sion of coal min­ing on Mon­day 24th August. Vis­it beau­ti­ful val­leys and strong spir­it­ed com­mu­ni­ties and make links for ongo­ing resis­tance.

We aim to make the site as acces­si­ble as we can please con­tact us in advance if you have spe­cial needs, ques­tions or con­cerns.

WHERE
The site is near in the Lake Dis­trict, Cum­bria. The near­est train sta­tion is Pen­rith and there is a bus ser­vice to the site, there are car and liv­ing vehi­cle spaces out­side the camp.

Dogs: We are for­tu­nate this year to be able to accom­mo­date well behaved own­ers with dogs on leads but think about whether your dog will feel com­fort­able in work­shops. Please call before­hand so we know num­bers.

Cost: £20 — £30 accord­ing to what you can afford. We are not for prof­it all extra cash goes to help fund next year. Under 14’s free.

For more info con­tact us at :
summergathering@earthfirst.org.uk
www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk

Latest EF! Action Update bursts forth

Car tyres deflate in the night, dig­gers halt­ed in their tracks, build­ings and MPs cov­ered in slime…airports plagued by crazy golf, pic­nics, city gents and hostage-taking…eco-villages and oth­er autonomous spaces sprout, as oth­ers are under threat…tree-sits, banks evict­ed, fake phone-masts and whal­ing ships sunk.…it must be time for anoth­er Earth First! Action Update, bring­ing you a con­cen­trat­ed quar­ter­ly blast of inspi­ra­tion and con­tacts to get out there and take direct action against the bas­tards threat­en­ing this plan­et and its inhab­i­tants.

News from the front-lines — per­ma­nent protest camps old and new, and tem­po­rary gath­er­ings in a field near you, all the dates and info you need for a sum­mer of blis­ter­ing action and tor­ren­tial out­pour­ings!

Suc­cess­es here, across the pond and round the very oth­er side of the world.

People stop logging trucksCar tyres deflate in the night, dig­gers halt­ed in their tracks, build­ings and MPs cov­ered in slime…airports plagued by crazy golf, pic­nics, city gents and hostage-taking…eco-villages and oth­er autonomous spaces sprout, as oth­ers are under threat…tree-sits, banks evict­ed, fake phone-masts and whal­ing ships sunk.…it must be time for anoth­er Earth First! Action Update, bring­ing you a con­cen­trat­ed quar­ter­ly blast of inspi­ra­tion and con­tacts to get out there and take direct action against the bas­tards threat­en­ing this plan­et and its inhab­i­tants.

News from the front-lines — per­ma­nent protest camps old and new, and tem­po­rary gath­er­ings in a field near you, all the dates and info you need for a sum­mer of blis­ter­ing action and tor­ren­tial out­pour­ings!

Suc­cess­es here, across the pond and round the very oth­er side of the world.

A report back from the Coal Car­a­van, plus info about the com­mu­ni­ties along its route.

Court news — what hap­pened after pro­test­ers planned to shut a coal-fired pow­er plant, and climbed atop a train, plus handy Secu­ri­ty Tips for Going on Actions.

Leav­ing it All in the Ground — news of glob­al fights against the min­ing of gold, cop­per, baux­ite and alu­mini­um — blockad­ing, torch­ing and night-time pix­ieing.

A View from the Trees — a sto­ry from our eco-cen­tric cousins. And indige­nous Peru­vians fight on against the whole­sale onslaught on our world.

And a round-up of your favourite pub­lic order sit­u­a­tions — G20, SmashE­DO and Athen­ian rub­bish dumps!

Read, down­load and print it here, sub­scribe so you get it direct to your door, or look out for it at a cli­mate camp near you.

If you want to be list­ed or get a bunch of them to dis­trib­ute, please get in touch.

Share your inspi­ra­tional news at EF! Action Reports, and it’ll find it’s way into your very own print­ed EF!AU, in good old black and white print.

Camp for Climate Action Scotland

There is no time to act but now! Come to the Camp for Cli­mate Action in Scot­land 3–10 August

ccs stickerThere is no time to act but now! Come to the Camp for Cli­mate Action in Scot­land 3–10 August

For a week of low-impact liv­ing and high-impact direct action, keep 3–10 August free and join us in Scot­land to take direct action against the root caus­es of cli­mate change and eco­log­i­cal col­lapse. This sum­mer the strug­gle against a cap­i­tal­ist sys­tem intent on extin­guish­ing life on the plan­et will hit the Firth of Forth!

What’s hap­pen­ing:

We’re going to set up camp some­where around the Firth of Forth, a part of the cen­tral belt of Scot­land lit­tered with pow­er sta­tions, cor­po­rate HQs, gas and oil refiner­ies, open cast coal mines, a nuclear pow­er sta­tion and a cement fac­to­ry. We want you to join us to hold the peo­ple and sys­tems respon­si­ble for cli­mate change to account.

The camp will focus on sup­port­ing groups of peo­ple tak­ing action against a whole range of tar­gets. If you’re com­ing with a group of friends that’s great – we’ll help you choose tar­gets and actions, and if you’re com­ing alone there will be plen­ty of oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet oth­er peo­ple to work and take action with.

The camp will have as low an eco­log­i­cal impact as pos­si­ble so expect com­post toi­lets, grey water sys­tems and micro-renew­able ener­gy. There will be kitchens on site where campers will make three meals a day so there’s no need to bring any food or cook­ing equip­ment. Organ­ised hor­i­zon­tal­ly, the camp will pro­vide lots of oppor­tu­ni­ties to get involved, be cre­ative and prac­ti­cal and learn new skills. There will be work­shops, dis­cus­sions and oppor­tu­ni­ties to link up with oth­er peo­ple, groups and cam­paigns.

We hope to work with and in sol­i­dar­i­ty with local com­mu­ni­ties and ongo­ing cam­paigns around the camp’s local­i­ty to build on what oth­ers are already doing and for the camp to have long-last­ing pos­i­tive impacts.

How to get there:

The loca­tion of the site will be announced just before the start of the camp – check here or phone the info num­ber which will be avail­able short­ly before the 3rd for direc­tions to the camp. If you’re com­ing by pub­lic trans­port get your­self to Edin­burgh Waver­ley or Glas­gow Cen­tral train sta­tions and be pre­pared to trav­el – info-points will tell you the train sta­tion to get to and how to get there. There will be shut­tle bus­es from the near­est train sta­tion to the camp. If you can’t make all of the camp, just come along for a day, a week­end or what­ev­er you can.

What to bring:

Camp­ing gear — a tent, sleep­ing bag and mat, prac­ti­cal cloth­ing and footwear. Be pre­pared for rain and sun. Ban­ners and dec­o­ra­tions to make our site beau­ti­ful and any­thing else that you would like to see. But most impor­tant­ly, bring all of your friends!

We will also be ask­ing for dona­tions to cov­er costs of food and expens­es for the camp. Sug­gest­ed amounts will be made avail­able clos­er to the time.

What not to bring:

It is pos­si­ble that you will be searched by police on enter­ing the site – penknives and any­thing that may be con­strued as a weapon is best left behind. You may also want to pro­tect your per­son­al details but remem­ber, if you don’t bring a cash card, bring enough cash to cov­er your trans­port, food dona­tions etc.

Know your rights!

Check­out the web­sites below for some advice on deal­ing with the police.
http://www.faslane365.org/en/legal
http://www.g8legalsupport.info/guide/

Up to date legal infor­ma­tion and advice will be avail­able at the camp.

Chil­dren:

Are most wel­come and there will be a kids space that peo­ple will be able to vol­un­teer for.

Dogs:

If you bring dog(s) please take respon­si­bil­i­ty for them. We ask that you keep them on a lead as there have been inci­dents at past camps that we’d pre­fer to avoid.

If you want more infor­ma­tion or to get in touch email us on climatecampscotland@riseup.net

See you there!

Come to our next meet­ing!

Edin­burgh, Wednes­day 29th July, 12:00–16:00, For­est Cafe Action Room, 3 Bris­to Place

in the mean­time, get your­self down to Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp!
See: http://coalactionedinburgh.noflag.org.uk/

North Carolina: ELF Vandalizes Home of Bank of America Director

“North Car­oli­na:
Steve Jones, a mem­ber of the board of direc­tors for Bank Of Amer­i­ca, the Unit­ed States’ pri­ma­ry investor in moun­tain top removal coal min­ing, had his house vis­it­ed twice dur­ing the night recent­ly.

“North Car­oli­na:
Steve Jones, a mem­ber of the board of direc­tors for Bank Of Amer­i­ca, the Unit­ed States’ pri­ma­ry investor in moun­tain top removal coal min­ing, had his house vis­it­ed twice dur­ing the night recent­ly.

On the eve of the Sum­mer Sol­stice, we vis­it­ed him the first time, smash­ing the front win­dow on the cute lamp in his dri­ve­way and leav­ing a stick­er on the post to let him know why we’d vis­it­ed. Also on this night we glued the locks and put stick­ers on a Bank Of Amer­i­ca branch in his town. 2 weeks lat­er, on the eve of the full moon we returned to his house and smashed to bits the rest of the lamp and splat­tered black paint all over the sign with his address/mail box and steps/walkway.

Ani­mal rights activists have long used red paint to mark mur­der­ers of many sorts; we chose black paint because it is black like the coal sludge that cov­ers Ten­nessee, mak­ing the earth tox­ic in a dis­as­ter said to be worse than the Exxon Valdez spill. This dis­as­ter was uncom­mon only in that it got press cov­er­age.

It is black like the water that comes out of the taps when peo­ple in effect­ed com­mu­ni­ties turn on their taps for water. And it is black like your heart. For the kids, for the bears, for the moun­tains, for the wolves, for the fish, for our moth­er, We will be back. ELF.”

Com­mu­nique from the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front Press Office. Click here for the press release.

Update from Rossport Solidarity Camp

10th July 09
Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp remains strong at Glen­gad with peo­ple tak­ing action and plan­ning for ongo­ing resis­tance to Shel­l’s gas pipeline in Erris, both off­shore and onshore.

Rossport Solidarity Camp10th July 09
Ross­port Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp remains strong at Glen­gad with peo­ple tak­ing action and plan­ning for ongo­ing resis­tance to Shel­l’s gas pipeline in Erris, both off­shore and onshore.

A recent nation­al meet­ing of Shell to Sea groups at the camp last week­end saw peo­ple moti­vat­ed to con­tin­ue with the fight. The camp on the clifftops at Glen­gad will con­tin­ue over the com­ing months and, despite heavy-hand­ed bail con­di­tions which have banned peo­ple from Mayo, a steady stream of vis­i­tors to the camp keeps spir­its high.

The focal point of the camp for a long time has been the arrival of the pipe-lay­ing ship the Soli­taire. The ship is now far out into the bay lay­ing pipeline on its way to the well-head. The navy have also left the bay, still leav­ing a heavy secu­ri­ty pres­ence guard­ing the dredgers as they back-fill over the pipe. The most recent action has focused on the sup­ply ships which go out reg­u­lar­ly from Kil­l­libegs in Done­gal, to sup­port the Soli­taire and the well head con­struc­tion.

Atten­tion is now also turn­ing to the onshore sec­tion of the pipeline which would run from Broad­haven bay for 9km to the refin­ery under con­struc­tion at Bel­len­aboy. Shell have yet to be grant­ed plan­ning per­mis­sion, although a deci­sion is expect­ed soon. Grant­i­ng per­mis­sion would open the way for drilling and con­struc­tion work across pris­tine riv­er estu­ary, peat bog­land and heav­i­ly con­test­ed farm­land and com­mon­age.

This remains a very impor­tant time to come to the camp to take action against the build­ing of the pipeline at all stages. There are many and var­ied ways to make a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion. Sup­port is invalu­able to sus­tain the sol­i­dar­i­ty camp, which has been a tar­get for legal repres­sion, and the local com­mu­ni­ty who have also recent­ly faced trau­mat­ic acts of vio­lence.

Whether it is for a few days or a few weeks this sum­mer come and be in this beau­ti­ful place and join the sol­i­dar­i­ty camp in a fight against cor­po­rate greed, the arro­gance of the state, and envi­ron­men­tal and com­mu­ni­ty dev­as­ta­tion.

Rossport Solidarity activists board supply ship to Solitaire in Killybegs

Today Shell to sea pro­tes­tors broke through a weak spot in the arma­da deployed to defend the Soli­taire — the sup­ply port in Killy­begs. One S2S activist occu­pied a tyre at side of Shell ship in Killy­begs.

Boarded ship activist in tyreToday Shell to sea pro­tes­tors broke through a weak spot in the arma­da deployed to defend the Soli­taire — the sup­ply port in Killy­begs. One S2S activist occu­pied a tyre at side of Shell ship in Killy­begs. The Soli­taire whilst being an enor­mous ship is depen­dent on a con­stant flow of ships bring­ing sup­plies from Killy­begs in Done­gal.

This morn­ing sev­en kayak­ers pad­dled out to the ship, the Toisa Inde­pen­dent, which was being loaded with a fresh batch of pipes for the Soli­taire. With very lit­tle secu­ri­ty the sev­en pad­dled up to the boat and as we speak one of the Kayak­ers is block­ing the ship from depart­ing after climb­ing aboard.

After a week­end where the Sun­day papers car­ried on the usu­al bar­rage against Shell to Sea with many claim­ing the cam­paign to be over Shell to Sea answered back in style today. The past fort­night saw the Erris area occu­pied by 200 Shel­l’s pri­vate secu­ri­ty IRMS, 300 Gar­dai (includ­ing 150 pub­lic order units), the navy backed up by a heli­copter and an aero­plane. Todays actions have shown the cam­paign is far from over

This week sees the state har­ras­ment and intim­i­da­tion of the cam­paign step up a gear with over two dozen Shell to sea pro­tes­tors being hauled before the courts on trumped up charges. But the fight con­tin­ues!

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Shell to Sea demonstration6th July 2009
This after­noon sev­en Shell to Sea activists in kayaks vis­it­ed the Toisa Inde­pen­dent, which sup­plies pipe to the Soli­taire, a ves­sel used by Shell to lay the Cor­rib gas pipeline. The Soli­taire, which left Broad­haven Bay (1) yes­ter­day after lay­ing the first sec­tion of pipe for the project, has been the tar­get of sev­er­al actions recent­ly in the con­tin­u­al cam­paign against Shell. (2) Despite Shel­l’s increas­ing­ly heavy hand­ed response to protests, Shell to Sea activist’s have con­tin­ued their fight.

Niall Har­nett, speak­ing from the protest in Killy­begs today said “We demand that this port stops sup­port­ing the Cor­rib gas project which is destroy­ing the lives of the peo­ple in Erris. There has been much mis­in­for­ma­tion about the Cor­rib gas pipeline in the media, as cam­paign­ers con­tin­ue to protest in order to bring a halt to this unsafe project which threat­ens the homes and liveli­hoods of many in the local area”. The pipeline would car­ry unprocessed gas across the region to the refin­ery at Bel­lan­aboy. (4)

Har­nett con­tin­ued “We are also act­ing in protest against the theft of Ire­land’s nat­ur­al resources. At a time when unem­ploy­ment lev­els are set to reach record num­bers and the gov­ern­ment attacks ordi­nary peo­ple with levies tax­es and pay cuts it is obscene that Shell are allowed to steal bil­lions of euro’s of our resources.” (5)

St.John O Donob­hain, also on the protest, said. “Shel­l’s attempts to pre­tend the Cor­rib project is a done-deal is mis­lead­ing. This is project is unjust, ille­gal, and immoral. It will fail.”

Shell to Sea activists board supply ship to Solitaire in Killibegs

6th July 2009

Shell to Sea demonstration6th July 2009
This after­noon sev­en Shell to Sea activists in kayaks vis­it­ed the Toisa Inde­pen­dent, which sup­plies pipe to the Soli­taire, a ves­sel used by Shell to lay the Cor­rib gas pipeline. The Soli­taire, which left Broad­haven Bay (1) yes­ter­day after lay­ing the first sec­tion of pipe for the project, has been the tar­get of sev­er­al actions recent­ly in the con­tin­u­al cam­paign against Shell. (2) Despite Shel­l’s increas­ing­ly heavy hand­ed response to protests, Shell to Sea activist’s have con­tin­ued their fight.

Niall Har­nett, speak­ing from the protest in Killy­begs today said “We demand that this port stops sup­port­ing the Cor­rib gas project which is destroy­ing the lives of the peo­ple in Erris. There has been much mis­in­for­ma­tion about the Cor­rib gas pipeline in the media, as cam­paign­ers con­tin­ue to protest in order to bring a halt to this unsafe project which threat­ens the homes and liveli­hoods of many in the local area”. The pipeline would car­ry unprocessed gas across the region to the refin­ery at Bel­lan­aboy. (4)

Har­nett con­tin­ued “We are also act­ing in protest against the theft of Ire­land’s nat­ur­al resources. At a time when unem­ploy­ment lev­els are set to reach record num­bers and the gov­ern­ment attacks ordi­nary peo­ple with levies tax­es and pay cuts it is obscene that Shell are allowed to steal bil­lions of euro’s of our resources.” (5)

St.John O Donob­hain, also on the protest, said. “Shel­l’s attempts to pre­tend the Cor­rib project is a done-deal is mis­lead­ing. This is project is unjust, ille­gal, and immoral. It will fail.”