Cinemateket: Statoils overgrep mot Irsk befolkning vises frem i prisbelønt dokumentar

Neptune Network inviterer til visning av den prisbelønte dokumentaren "The Pipe" MANDAG 31. oktober kl. 17.00 på Cinemateket. Filmen omhandler det svært omstridte gassprosjektet i Corrib utenfor det lille lokalsamfunnet Rossport ved den irske nordvestkysten. Statoil har 36% eierandel i prosjektet, som i en periode på over 9 år har møtt stor lokal motstand.

ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian community from the oil-rich Niger Delta has filed a lawsuit in the United States seeking $1 billion in compensation from Anglo-Dutch oil major Shell for decades of pollution caused by oil spills.

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide if companies can be held liable in the United States for international human rights law violations.

The decision was related to a case involving allegations that Shell helped Nigeria violently suppress oil exploration protests in the 1990s.

They might not be gaining much media attention but there are now three encampments in Ireland inspired by the #occupywallstreet protest in New York.
#occupycork, #occupygalway and Dublin’s #occupydamestreet are now home to hundreds who just want to do something, their ranks swelling in daylight with less-hardy souls. They claim to represent the 99 per cent, the silent majority who control little of the country’s wealth.

Weekly Tuesday morning protest turns into a sucessful blockade

Outside the gates of Shell's Bellanaboy refinery in Mayo on Tuesday 18th October, someone got on top of a tractor, blocking all Shell deliveries for the morning.