fighting the good fight

Jailing of Irish villagers sparks anger as farmers defy Shell in Battle
of the Bog

Support swells for opponents of gas pipeline imprisoned for contempt of court

Angelique Chrisafis, Ireland correspondent
Monday July 18, 2005
The Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk>

It began as a hopeless mismatch: a handful of villagers in remote
north-west Mayo taking on the multinational Shell. But the Battle of the
Bog has turned into one of the biggest protests against Shell in Europe
after five villagers were jailed for refusing the company access to
their land because they feared a proposed gas pipeline was unsafe.
Subsistence farmers from Rossport accuse Shell of turning them into
"human guinea pigs" by building a £600m high-pressure gas pipeline near
their homes.
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