Irish Bog Swallows up Shell Convoy

[Firky]

On Monday:

Hundreds of Garda deployed to protect Shell's machine from the people of Ireland

http://www.wsm.ie/c/garda-deployed-protect-shells-machine-people-ireland

Not half an hour ago:

We are hearing from Rossport that that Shell CorribTBM that is sinking weighs 160 ton & no crane of that capacity is available in Ireland that can lift it out - may be stuck days or longer - they say if you can travel now is the time to get down there - it won't be over in hours

Shell TBM stuck in the bog - huge lorry jackknifed on turning on bog road - road sinking under its weight - driver refusing to enter vehicle as too dangerous - neat illustration of truth of safety of project claims - From a house overlooking the site where Garda were refusing to allow anyone to leave the building so they txted pics to us to put up

 

[cesare]

Couldn't make it up

 

[Firky]

"There's a feckin, gawd, so there is. Amma tellin' ya! Paddy, hide that crane before the law gets here. Stick it in the barn with the hosses."

 

[Barking_Mad]

The company responsible are called Rensink

 

[Bakunin]

 

[Quartz]

I don't understand why they're protesting. This is a machine designed to drill a tunnel under a SAC. Surely that's much better environmentally than the usual cut & cover? Or is the issue with the whole oil & gas industry - and presumably rampant corruption?

 

[shagnasty]

I can't blame the driver ,he refused to go back in the cab

 

[Firky]

An hour ago:

Latest from the sinking TBM - By trying to tow it out they've made it worse, the back end has gone deeper off the road. They removed some metal sheeting and lights they had put down by the turn at Bellanaboy, possibly suggesting they've given up any hope of getting it into the compound tonight

Ten minutes ago:

The jacks of the tow truck have sunk into the pavement; midwest radio just announced.

 

[ddraig]

fucking ace!
nature fighting back

 

[Barking_Mad]

Odds on it not getting out again?

 

[Pickman's model]

They won't get it out again

 

[free spirit]

I don't understand why they're protesting. This is a machine designed to drill a tunnel under a SAC. Surely that's much better environmentally than the usual cut & cover? Or is the issue with the whole oil & gas industry - and presumably rampant corruption?

the protest is against the entire pipeline IIRC, not the use of a tunnel instead of cut and cover.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

They won't get it out again

certainly sounds unlikely at this stage, must have cost a fair amount of dosh too that borer

 

[Firky]

They won't get it out again

Emergency road widening works are under discussion.

 

[Firky]

the protest is against the entire pipeline IIRC, not the use of a tunnel instead of cut and cover.

Yup, there is a film about it all called The Pipe. All is explained.

http://www.thepipethefilm.com/

 

[Firky]

It's made it into the national papers:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0731/breaking14.html?via=mr

 

[Stephen Sweeney]

Right lads, for a start don't know who said you can't get a crane large enough to lift out that 160 tonne load, including unit and trailer, here's Kavanagh's Demag http://www.irishcranehire.com/2009/crane_item.php?crane=7 And that's 400 tonne lifting capacity, that'd be landed tomorrow morning no bother.

 

[ddraig]

 

[Firky]

Crane spam?

€10 says that fucker will sink.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Right lads, for a start don't know who said you can't get a crane large enough to lift out that 160 tonne load, including unit and trailer, here's Kavanagh's Demag http://www.irishcranehire.com/2009/crane_item.php?crane=7 And that's 400 tonne lifting capacity, that'd be landed tomorrow morning no bother.

I wonder how much stuff they will sink into the bog before giving it up as a bad job?

 

[free spirit]

it reminds me of the festival where the site crew ended up with 2 telehandlers stuck in the mud up to the axels.

oh how we laughed, until we worked out we'd have to steward the damn things until they got them out.

eta - and the time we basically ended up with a temporary trackway floating on top of a bog, so anyone who stopped for longer than a few minutes ended up with the trackway below the wheels just sunk into the bog, but still on the trackway. The marquee company loved that.

 

[Barking_Mad]

 

[Libertad]

Right lads, for a start don't know who said you can't get a crane large enough to lift out that 160 tonne load, including unit and trailer, here's Kavanagh's Demag http://www.irishcranehire.com/2009/crane_item.php?crane=7 And that's 400 tonne lifting capacity, that'd be landed tomorrow morning no bother.

Pffft... call that a crane?
They'll have to plate the roadway to work on the beast and once they've got it out then what? They'll have to plate all the way to site.

160 tonnes+suction, nah.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

it reminds me of the festival where the site crew ended up with 2 telehandlers stuck in the mud up to the axels.

oh how we laughed, until we worked out we'd have to steward the damn things until they got them out.

eta - and the time we basically ended up with a temporary trackway floating on top of a bog, so anyone who stopped for longer than a few minutes ended up with the trackway below the wheels just sunk into the bog, but still on the trackway. The marquee company loved that.

At Glasto one year I swerved a telehandler into a boggy ditch and a mate tried to pull me out with his, and I just ended up pulling him in with me, it took a third plus a tractor to get us out

 

[free spirit]

At Glasto one year I swerved a telehandler into a boggy ditch and a mate tried to pull me out with his, and I just ended up pulling him in with me, it took a third plus a tractor to get us out

lol - that could even be the occasion I was thinking of, although I reckon it was the glade flood year that I had in mind, and IIRC they were in the middle of one of the stages when they sunk as well.

 

[Firky]

Pffft... call that a crane?
They'll have to plate the roadway to work on the beast and once they've got it out then what? They'll have to plate all the way to site.

160 tonnes+suction, nah.

Well according to several sources on twitter they're getting a crane in from the UK. It's too pull out the TBM, several trucks and fuck knows what else. I can't see how that tonka truck posted above is going to be of much use.

 

[Libertad]

That'll go down well.

 

[Firky]

Fuck all about this on the BBC.

I think it is great, quite poetic.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

lol - that could even be the occasion I was thinking of, although I reckon it was the glade flood year that I had in mind, and IIRC they were in the middle of one of the stages when they sunk as well.

Nah this was luckily on a service road round the back well out of sight of the punters thankgod.

 

[Pickman's model]

So let me get this straight. Heavy truck sinks into bog so they're getting a heavier crane to get the heavy truck out. It's a fucking recipe for disaster. What will they get to get the crane out?