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Shell to Sea protestors occupy and shut down Bellanaboy refinery site
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Saturday February 17, 2007 15:29 by w. improvemyself at hotmail dot com
News report from inside the fences Work at the controversial Bellanaboy refinery site was halted on Friday the 16th February for the first time since October 3rd 2006 by a breakaway march of roughly 150 militant protestors. The breakaway began as protestors, many of whom had traveled through the night and taken days off work to be there, left a larger Shell to Sea day of support demonstration at the main gates of the refinery. Protestors ran across bogs and passed barbed wire fences before marching for 20 minutes alongside Shell’s unlaid pipeline to reach the construction site where they surrounded Shell’s construction vehicles. |
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1I wasn't aware of any headcount but estimated over 100 people crossing the bog with a further group of protestors gaining access via another entrance and a large enough group of stragglers at the back, an estimate of roughly "150" isn't too far off the mark.
In the 2nd pic in the above comment a senior garda can be seen restraining another garda who had begun to drag out barriers to place between protestors and the exit to the site, other gardai stretched, hopped up and down and generally began warming up in anticipation of an order to use force to remove the protestors.
There were 100 people in that group, not 150 - the other report said that a head count while they all together and inside gave 95 people.