Solitaire Arrives in Rossport

25.6.2009
The Soli­taire, the huge pip lay­ing ship, that will lay the pipeline in Broad­haven Bay has arrived. If you were think­ing of com­ing to Ross­port this sum­mer now is the time. Resis­tance con­tin­ues whilst 200 Gar­dai and the Irish Navy are draft­ed in to facil­i­tate Shel­l’s project.

Soli­taire on the horizon,more arrests — the resis­tance con­tin­ues — Sol­i­dar­i­ty!

25.6.2009
The Soli­taire, the huge pip lay­ing ship, that will lay the pipeline in Broad­haven Bay has arrived. If you were think­ing of com­ing to Ross­port this sum­mer now is the time. Resis­tance con­tin­ues whilst 200 Gar­dai and the Irish Navy are draft­ed in to facil­i­tate Shel­l’s project.

Soli­taire on the horizon,more arrests — the resis­tance con­tin­ues — Sol­i­dar­i­ty!

At approx­i­mate­ly 5.30pm on Wednes­day, two swim­mers were arrest­ed in Broad­haven Bay by the joint Gar­daí and Naval force

As the Soli­taires arrival looms large,the state ups the pres­sure with more friv­o­lous arrests

At approx­i­mate­ly 5.30pm on Wednes­day, two swim­mers were arrest­ed in Broad­haven Bay by the joint Gar­daí and Naval force, for oppos­ing Shel­l’s Cor­rib Gas Project. Both were quite a dis­tance out­side of Shel­l’s so-called ‘exclu­sion zone’ in the Bay when they were arrest­ed by Gar­dai jump­ing towards them from RIBs (Rigid Inflat­able Boats). The protest was against prepara­to­ry cable work being done before the arrival of the Soli­taire. Nei­ther pro­test­er was close to any machin­ery, or stop­ping any work from tak­ing place. This brings to 22 the num­ber of peo­ple arrest­ed this month for oppos­ing Shell.

This forms part of a larg­er pat­tern of arbi­trary arrest, through which Gar­dai are seek­ing to repress peace­ful protest against Shel­l’s dis­as­trous Cor­rib Gas Project. Recent weeks have seen dra­con­ian attempts to remand first-time offend­ers to cus­tody for rel­a­tive­ly minor offences, along with very high bail mon­ey being demand­ed for pro­test­ers. The attempt­ed crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion of cam­paign­ers rais­es very seri­ous ques­tions about civ­il lib­er­ties and the infring­ing on the right to protest.

Shell to Sea spokesper­son Mau­ra Har­ring­ton said: “The hun­dreds of Gar­dai and Naval per­son­nel draft­ed into the area in the last 48 hours shows just how far the gov­ern­ment will go to facil­i­tate Shell, despite the fact that this project is com­plete­ly against the inter­ests of the peo­ple of this coun­try. These lat­est arrests are mere­ly the Gar­daí and Navy try­ing to jus­ti­fy the immense and total­ly dis­pro­por­tion­ate force that has been sent down by the State to force this project through”

LE Emer is cur­rent­ly sta­tioned in Broad­haven Bay and Navy RIBs crewed by Gar­daí and Navy per­son­nel are cur­rent­ly being used against pro­tes­tors.

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