Three sentenced for Shell in Erris

andrew
Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:36:29 +0000
Policing, Rossport, Economy, National, Newspaper, News, Sean Flood

For the past eight years the people of Rossport in North West Mayo have been struggling against an at- tempt by Shell and other companies to build a dangerous and destructive gas processing terminal near to their homes and their community. This development would benefit no-one but wealthy shareholders as the Irish Government handed over the extraction rights to the oil companies in the 1980s and 1990s.