Friday, December 20, 2019

Fred A. Wilcox - Shamrocks and Oil Slicks: A People's Uprising Against Shell Oil in County Mayo, Ireland

Resolute Reader at ResoluteReader - 1 week ago
This charming account of a campaign of local people to stop Shell building a refinery and gas pipeline through the glorious coastal landscape of County Mayo in Ireland is both a rage of anger at a world were profit is put before people and planet; and a celebration of the ordinary people who stand up and protest against this. In the early 2000s Shell decided to exploit the Corrib Gas Field.

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