Rossport Solidarity Camp

by Elaine Mon Aug 29, 2005 06:23

for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnights all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

The Only Kind Of Shell They Want At Rossport

Coastal Erosion At Rossport, Not The Safest Place To Put A Pipeline Through

Sedums On The Shore - Beauty Abounds In This Place

Is This The Future For The Fishing Community In Rossport?

Dead Seal On A Nearby Beach - If SHell Move To Town This Could Be A More Common Sight

by Elaine Mon Aug 29, 2005 06:31

for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in my deep heart's core.

- W.B. Yeats

SHell - A Blight On The Landscape

Shell's Compound Sits Idle At Rossport

Highway to SHell - Partially Constructed Roadway Leading From The Shell Compound

Unlaid Pipes At The Shell Compound - All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go

The Sign Reads 'Danger Overhead Cables' - It Neglects To Mention The Danger To Locals If The Pipeline Goes Ahead

by Elaine Mon Aug 29, 2005 06:40

the tumbledown walls went leap-frog
Over the moors,
The sugar and salt in the pubs were damp in the casters
And the water was brown as beer upon the shores

Of desolate loughs, and stumps of hoary bog-oak
Stuck up here and there
And as the twilight filtered on the heather
Water-music filled the air, "

Neighbours Beside The Compound Spell It Out For Shell

Illegally Constructed Pipeline Clearly Visible From Across The Bay

Illegally Constructed Section Of The Proposed 'Upstream' Pipeline

Bellanaboy Proposed Refinery Site - Peat Removal Has Already Begun

Deforested Section Awaiting More Illegal Development

by Elaine Mon Aug 29, 2005 06:46

came down upon the bogland
With all-enveloping wings
The coal black turf-stacks rose against the darkness
Like the tombs of nameless kings.

- Louis MacNeice

Wind Powered Turbine Bringing Clean Power To The People

Tents In A Huddle On A Windy Sunday Morning

The Camp Has A New Suburb

by Stevo Tue Aug 30, 2005 20:01 Stevolende at gmail dot com

Blooming lovely getting back up there for the last weekend. Weather might have been better but anyway I love the place.
Can't believe that I bumped into somebody in Healey's who was pro-pipe but he was also into getting pixilated, intoxicated etc.
Unfortunately thanks to the weather I didn't get to mow Maureen's lawn so I hope somebody else can.
Also has anybody found a red notebook, since mine seems to've disappeared dunno if I left it on bench in Healey's or in the van that was ferrying us to & from there.
Would love to get it back
Stevo