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Shell Spin Means Nothing, the Struggle Continues
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Friday May 05, 2006 02:45 by Terry - Rossport Solidarity Camp rossportsolidaritycamp at gmail dot com
Report on last two days of spin coming from Shell and the state, as well as details of upcoming gathering in Rossport Solidarity Camp. Shell and the state have gone into public relations over drive in the last couple of days.
On Thursday Andy Pyle, top of the feeding chain for Shell Exploration and Production in Ireland, said: "Mistakes have been made. We regret the part that we played in the jailing of the five men last summer. For the hurt that this caused the local community I am sorry". All this furore, tumult, and hype ignores the fact that the main focus of protest on the ground in Erris for many months has been the refinery in Ballinaboy. This is an intrinsic part of the project, along with the pipeline, and so to is opposition to it an intrinsic part of the campaign, for it too poses considerable health and safety dangers. These dangers are detailed in a pdf leaflet here
This contemptuous pretence of concern for a community which has been ignored throughout the six years this development has been stuck on the planning board was greeted with defiance in Erris, with Willie Corduff saying to the media that:
''We're a great country for acknowledging our martyrs, so maybe the Government will be raising a plaque to me in another 50 years, because that's what I'm prepared to do - die''.
While the window dressing and spin emanating from Shell and the state in the last two days, may, perhaps, in some fit of myopia, be an attempt to mollify the opposition to their plans, it is more the case that such pr rituals solidify resistance in the expectation that they are a preparation for an attempt to force a resumption of building. After all this is the route they are likely to take chipping away at the popular outrage of last year until they are in a more favourable political position to re-commence their march on Erris. |
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