Shell to Sea campaigners plan public meeting in city

The ongoing struggle against the Shell oil corporation by the people of Co Mayo will be the focus of a public meeting in Belfast next week.

The What’s up with Shell event will bring together people directly involved in the Shell to Sea campaign and supporters in Belfast.
Last June, the Rossport Five were jailed after being accused breaching a High Court order prohibiting them from interfering with pipe-laying work on their own land.

Shell and their partners, Statoil and Marathon, want to pipe unrefined gas past residential properties in the Rossport district of Co Mayo. Locals say the pipeline is too dangerous to be put near homes and a refinery should be constructed at sea.

Daily Ireland