Shell Gas Offices plagued in Derbyshire

9.11.2007
Sup­port­ers of the Inter­na­tion­al strug­gle against shell have demon­strat­ed out­side the Shell Gas offices in Duck­man­ton, Nr Chester­field this morn­ing with ban­ners, noise and images of the com­mu­ni­ty strug­gle in Ire­land. They leaflet­ed the work­ers at the offices and demand­ed an end to the ongo­ing vio­lence, intim­i­da­tion and bribery that the Shell project has begun on the local peo­ple of Mayo, NW Ire­land.

9.11.2007
Sup­port­ers of the Inter­na­tion­al strug­gle against shell have demon­strat­ed out­side the Shell Gas offices in Duck­man­ton, Nr Chester­field this morn­ing with ban­ners, noise and images of the com­mu­ni­ty strug­gle in Ire­land. They leaflet­ed the work­ers at the offices and demand­ed an end to the ongo­ing vio­lence, intim­i­da­tion and bribery that the Shell project has begun on the local peo­ple of Mayo, NW Ire­land.

Today’s demon­stra­tion was in sol­i­dar­i­ty of an inter­na­tion­al day of action all over the world with the Irish and Ogo­ni com­mu­ni­ties Novem­ber the 10th is the first anniver­sary of the gar­dai (police) baton charge against the peo­ple in Erris. It is also the 12th anniver­sary of the exe­cu­tion of Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 oth­er Ogo­ni peo­ple who were lead­ers in the move­ment against Shell in Nige­ria. As in Nige­ria in the ear­ly nineties, state vio­lence is being used on the local peo­ple of Mayo to pro­tect cor­po­rate prof­its.

Work­ers at the Duck­man­ton office seemed some­what sur­prised this morn­ing with the demon­stra­tion and they didn’t get much sup­port from their neigh­bours either who also stat­ed “they hate them”

The refin­ery is to be built in a Spe­cial Area of con­ser­va­tion under EU reg­u­la­tions. Shell’s own study found that the bay is a breed­ing and rear­ing area for whales and dol­phins record­ing over 220 sight­ings of sev­en whale and dol­phin species, two seal species, bask­ing sharks and sea tur­tle. Tox­ic waste is to be pumped into Broad­haven Bay from the refin­ery, includ­ing lead, nick­el, mag­ne­sium, phos­pho­rous, chromi­um, arsenic, mer­cury and radioac­tive gas radon.

Shell are respon­si­ble for the site relat­ed health prob­lems, spills, tox­ic releas­es and mur­der of local peo­ples around their plants in Nige­ria, South Africa, Texas, Louisiana, The Philip­pines, Cura­cao, Brazil

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http://www.indymedia.ie http://www.corribsos.com
http://www.corporatewatch.org http:// www.shellfacts.com
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