The first weeks of June saw another display of open defiance to Shell’s pipeline construction in County Mayo. The following is a report from the Rossport Solidarity Camp: The week of action started with fortifying the camp against eviction, and as the […]
A report from the May Day work week and coming June action camp Welcoming in the Spring, a blocakade on May 3rd held up traffic for over 3 hours between Bellanaboy and Shell’s Aughoose compound. A concrete lock-on in the middle […]
May Day! Day of Solidarity & work weekend 4-7 May Anyone feel like heading over to Ireland next week? Along with plans for actions against Shell, the weekend includes a talk by an Earth First! Journal editor who will be visiting overseas. […]
All Shell haulage stopped from 7.30am today by civil disobedience in County Mayo This morning at 7.30am two campaigners locked themselves to a concrete barrel in the middle of the road near Shell’s main construction site for the Corrib gas onshore pipeline […]
Rossport Solidarity Camp activists pull off another lock-on protest (or lockdown, as some say) on the roadside in north Mayo, near the site of Shell works for the controversial Corrib gas project, meant that operations were impeded until lunchtime Monday. The two […]
By Earth First! Journal For a decade, local residents of Rossport and international solidarity activists have been fighting and organizing against a disastrous proposal by Shell, the Corrib gas project (Irish: Ghás Aiceanta na Coiribe), which entails the extraction of a natural […]
Skytruth estimates that, actually, 1.1 million gallons of oil per day are now spilling into the Gulf. The feds won’t reveal any actual information about the amount, because that would lead to cleanup costs billions of $ higher than the current estimate […]