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...tangle of estuaries and peninsulas that form Broadhaven Bay on Ireland's northwest coast, buffeting the yellow gorse bushes and pink rhododendrons that cling stoutly to the vast green bog stepped and striped black by centuries of cutting for household fuel. Like most of the Gaelic-speaking locals in Rossport, Willie Corduff has lived all his life here, cutting turf and seaweed, raising a few animals and getting by on frugality...
...Shell's insistence, imprisoned the men for contempt of court for violating the injunction against interfering with work on the pipeline. After the men, who remained defiant in court, had spent 94 days in prison, Shell backed 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...
...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...
Silver & Jewels. Coghlan also covets Standard Oil Heir William L. Harkness's 2O5-ft. yacht Gunilda, which sank in 200 ft. of water off Rossport on Aug. 31, 1911. Coghlan has researched the Gunilda's last hours, is convinced that $250,000 in silverware and jewels are inside the yacht's rotting hulk. After that he hopes to investigate a promising underwater copper deposit off Rossport. He also thinks he can make money retrieving pulpwood "worth at least $2,000,000" that lines the harbor bottom at Thunder Bay (about one pulpwood log in 20 sinks during...
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