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...Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to berate the company over its plans to run a six-mile high-pressure gas pipeline through his neighborhood. The pipe would connect the massive Corrib gas field, 50 miles out to sea, to a 400-acre refinery being built in nearby Ballinaboy. When Shell's surveyors first showed up on his land in 2000, Corduff showed them the gate. By the time they returned in June 2005, armed with a compulsory purchase order, a court injunction and police guards, Corduff and his neighbors had become seasoned campaigners as versed in the legalities of public...
...down and withdrew the injunction. By then, of course, the Rossport Five, as they became known, had rallied nationwide support for their "Shell to Sea" campaign, aimed at forcing the company to adopt the more expensive alternative of processing the gas at sea. Violent clashes with the police at Ballinaboy and in Dublin made headline news, although more recently a certain weariness has set in. "You'll not find much support for them down here," says a head teacher from the south of the county. "I can understand why you wouldn't want it in your own back yard...
...small victory for the Rossport campaigners, a court ruled Shell's original pipeline route was no longer legally enforceable, forcing the company to find an alternate route. But it is already forging ahead with construction on its Ballinaboy plant, which has now become the focus of the protesters' war of attrition...
...lorries stream through the steel gates carrying away tons of soft turf being stripped away in search of solid ground on which to build the Ballinaboy refinery, a handful of campaigners huddle nearby in a converted horse trailer, fortifying themselves with hot tea, iced buns and buttered fruit loaf. At the gates a few gardai stand around looking glum and bored, with a wistful eye perhaps on their colleagues in the warm, dry police van parked nearby. The arrival of a reporter and a photographer produces a flurry of activity. When a dozen or so protesters make for the gates...
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