November 10, 2007
Several hundred police overpowered about 300 protesters who tried to block construction of a natural-gas processing plant in western Ireland. Three protesters were arrested and another was taken to hospital as officers cleared a sit-down protest at the gates of Royal Dutch Shell’s planned refinery in the unpopulated bogland of Bellanaboy, Co Mayo, police said.
Shell to Sea, a group that has mounted several similar protests since construction of the Bellanaboy facility began 13 months ago, said that a lorry carrying Shell workers ran over a protester’s foot. The protest was timed to coincide with the 12th anniversary of the execution in Nigeria of nine antiShell campaigners, including Ken Saro-Wiwa, the writer.
The Green Party, which opposed the project while in opposition, has accepted it since joining the Government in June. Shell is building a pipeline to deliver raw natural gas from the Corrib field, about 80km (50 miles) off northwest Mayo, to Bellanaboy. (AP)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2844013.ece
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