SHELL in Ireland-2011

In 1996, Just Forests organised a public protest meeting outside Birr Castle, in Co Offaly, against Shell’s appalling human rights record in Nigeria and their role in the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa, poet and environmentalist, and against the destruction by Shell of primary west African rainforest.

See pictures here.

Now fast forward to 2011 and SHELL are still carrying on 'business-as-usual' as the pictures here suggest.

The struggle of the small coastal community of Erris to have the pipeline rerouted away from their homes since the gas reserves were acquired by Royal Dutch Shell in 2002 has attracted little press attention outside of Ireland -- something the documentary aims to change.

Until NOW...that is! Oil Giant Gets a Shelling David Versus Goliath Off the Irish Coast

By Jill Petzinger