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Mar 10, 2020 · As for the pesky resisters holding up its trucks and equipment, preventing employees from entering their lands, Shell offered more generous compensation/bribes, attacks by thugs and police, and an injunction aimed specifically at only the worst, the Rossport 5, who, in violating court order, went to prison. Shell’s last tactic, however, backfired.
May 28, 2011 · Shell's battle for the heart of Ireland. For generations, the people of Erris have been farming and fishing along the remote coast of County Mayo. When gas was discovered offshore, Shell...
Nov 24, 2023 · Fri 24 Nov 2023 11.29 EST. T he young rioter surveyed the scene. A bus and a car blazed on O’Connell Bridge while masked groups marauded across the city centre looting shops, attacking police and...
Apr 23, 2021 · A People’s Uprising Against Shell Oil in County Mayo, Ireland | CODE ROOD. 23 April, 2021. +++ Resisting Shell around the World: A People’s Uprising Against Shell Oil in County Mayo, Ireland +++.
Background. The pipeline makes landfall at Glengad, County Mayo. The Corrib gas project entails the extraction of a natural gas deposit off the northwest coast of Ireland. The project includes extraction of the Corrib gas field and construction of the natural gas pipeline and a gas processing plant.
- November 2000 – December 2015
- County Mayo, Ireland
- Gas production commences in 2015, Shell withdraws in 2018, Activists continue to oppose the project
Apr 23, 2021 · “Royal Dutch Shell, the big oil company, agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle a case accusing it of taking part in human rights abuses in the Niger Delta in the early 1990s, a striking sum given that the company has denied any wrongdoing.”
Jun 27, 2015 · A decade ago the Rossport Five were jailed over their opposition to a pipeline linking the offshore Corrib gas field to Shell’s inland refinery. With that plant complete, what were the project’s...