Shell to Sea activist jailed for 10 days

SHELL TO SEA activist Maura Harrington has been arrested and jailed for 10 days over the non-payment of a €300 court fine.

Shell to Sea says it understands the fine relates to a protest in 2012 which attempted to block the construction of the controversial processing facility for the Corrib gas field in Mayo.

Reacting to the arrest, Terence Conway of Shell to Sea said:

“The hypocrisy of this is evident – Maura goes to jail to for protecting our environment and resources while the multinationals are invited in to plunder.”

Referencing recently released figures which show one of the corporations with shares in the controversial Mayo site had sales of €17million in the first three months of 2016, he said:

“We are calling on yet another government to take back our natural resources that have been willfully given away by politicians and to ensure that no community has to suffer what we have for the past 15 years.”

Shell to Sea has also repeated its call for a full independent inquiry into the Corrib gas project.