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Victory To Rossport![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The attempted construction of a high-pressure gas pipeline and onshore refinery in Rossport by the consortium of Shell, Statoil and Marathon has been resisted since 2001. Through the constant vigilance of the locals and activists in the solidarity camp, any attempts to access the site to work have been blockaded. If you've been living under a rock for the last while here's a rundown of the situation, the safety of the Rossport community will be at risk from contamination of their drinking water, environmental pollution, articulated vehicles on tiny bog roads and last, but not least, the potentially explosive pipe less than 80m from some of their houses! Ray Burke who was Energy Minister in 1988 changed the laws governing oil exploitation in Ireland. As an 'incentive' to companies he abolished all royalties and production related levies ad lowered the oil tax to 25% (the lowest in the world, Norway has 78% tax). Oh and he was judged by Justice Feargus Flood in the Planning Tribunal to be completely "corrupt" but that was about a property development. How strange. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4I second Dirk D's comments - please support the Erris people in this struggle against corporate takeover of Ireland. Rossport Solidarity Camp are working for our environment and freedom of expression - give them your support!
"They are part of the ruling class. Politicians are their willing pawns and journalists their obliging tools."
Oh grow up. We live in a post-class society with a free press so get your heads out of those marx books and cop on.
Im interested in your opinion as to how and why shell got such a good deal on the corrib field. Also, your views on privatisation of health, sanitation, transport, electricity, airlines. The lack of balanced coverage in the "free" newspapers owned by tony o'reilly (who also has interests in offshore exploration) and how all this is really benefitting the ordinary citizen.
Then for afters I'd like the formula for a cure for cancer, a foolproof strategy to attain world peace and a map detailing the exact wherabouts of the tooth fairy. I assume you believe in the tooth fairy too.....
get your head out of the John Grisham books friend!! That is a remarkably ridiculous comment. Just because the class structures have altered significantly over the past few decades, isn't to say that we are all one jolly group now. You obviously are firmly entrenched within the burgeoning middle classes to which we all aspire (except of course for those in the upper middle class, previously known as the upper class, who don't intend on going down the rankings). Who works on the factory floor, or serves you when you stop in the convenience stores? Who runs the factories, or tells the tellers what to do next? And who perspires over their profit margin declines and decides to let a few of the new chaps go? And who regulates them all? Quite a few social classes still knocking around. Post class society indeed, pfft!