June 29, 2005

Behind Bars

Five men from Rossport in Mayo were sent to prison today for preventing Shell from accessing their land in preparation for building a high-pressure pipeline that will link the Corrib Oil and Gas field off the north Mayo coast to a pumping station near Bangor Erris. The five will stay in jail until they 'purge their contempt' - Shell had previously obtained a High Court injunction against the five. Some background info. here , here and here.


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Posted by Monasette at June 29, 2005 11:15 PM
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my deepest respect for this "minority of landowners and objectors who are unable to accept this"

Posted by: Mattie at June 30, 2005 07:17 PM

The Minister has some new questions to answer after today- a letter was delivered to his office seeking 21 points of information, including documentation, under Council Directive 2003/4/EC by Edward McGarr, solicitor.

See http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/Politics/corrib1.html
for the text of the letter.

Posted by: Simon McGarr at July 3, 2005 11:17 PM