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Ferris calls for more support for Rossport campaigners
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 Tuesday October 10, 2006 18:05 by repoast
10 October, 2006
Sinn Féin Natural Resources spokesperson Martin Ferris TD has called on people to support solidarity protests against Shell facilities across Ireland in the wake of further clashes and reports of assaults by Gardaí on protestors at the Bellanaboy site. In a strongly worded statement, Deputy Ferris accused Shell of reliance on ‘dodgy polling, brute force and scab labour’ as proof of how isolated their position is and said the company is prepared to ‘lie, cheat and intimidate’ to get its way. The Kerry North TD said: “The proof that Shell is running scared is laid out in today’s Irish Examiner where the company makes the laughable claim that 70% of people back their proposals. The reality is that the biased nature of this polling was exposed some weeks ago when people went public about the way pollsters treated them when they said they supported the Rossport campaign. It also comes a week after a TG4 poll, with a much bigger sample, found 60% support for the campaign.
“That Shell is forced to rely on dodgy polling and brute force to get its scab labour into the Bellanaboy site is proof of just how little support the project has in Mayo, and further afield. Since the stand-offs resumed in Mayo at the start of last week demonstrations of support have taken place in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Derry, Limerick, Galway and other places. Shell stations and offices have been blockaded and depots shut down. Support for the campaign is clearly as strong as ever.
“It is important that these solidarity protests not simply continue, but escalate. Any who are able to get to Bellanaboy to help local people should do so. For those who cannot, I would urge them to support pickets of Shell stations, offices and facilities in their local area. After years of campaigning, it is clear that Shell has got the message that their on-shore processing plant is not wanted, they are merely indifferent to the wishes of local people and prepared to lie, cheat and intimidate to get their way.”
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Jump To Comment: 1 2Today's Shell Poll as spelt out by the Irish Examiner is full of the most absolute anomalies, so much so that I intend to get my students to attempt to analyse it in tomorrow's lecture. Did the editor understand the findings? Who did?
ferris accusing anybody of brute force is a laugh a minute..hardehar
also the tg4 poll showed overall support for shell at 84%, i wish people would quote accurately and not bullshit so much
maybe ferris can ship a few armalites through to the protesters