
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A compelling documentary film four years in the making The Pipe tells the story of the small Rossport community which has taken on the might of Shell Oil & the Irish State The discovery of gas off this remote coastal village has led to the most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland The rights of farmers over their fields & of fishermen to their fishing grounds has come in direct conflict with one of the world's most powerful oil companies When the citizens look to their State to protect their rights they find that the government has put Shell's right to lay a pipeline over their own Already 5 locals have spent 94 days in jail rather than let the proposed Shell pipeline cross their lands This once tranquil area is engulfed in turmoil as huge numbers of police drafted in Normal policing has broken down following baton charges surveillance arrests & a hunger strike by a local schoolteacher Written by Rachel Lysaght Directors Risteard O' Domhnaill Format PAL Colour Language English Number of discs 1