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Pipe Down

60 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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In the Erris peninsula of Co. Mayo, Ireland, a rural community spends years fighting Shell over plans to run a raw, high-pressure gas pipeline from the Corrib field through their land to a processing terminal at Bellanaboy. The film sets Shell Ireland's Colin Joyce against the people the pipeline runs past: farmer Willie Corduff, fisherman Pat O'Donnell, and County Councillor Gerry Coyle, all speaking to what the project would mean for their fields, boats, and safety. Shell to Sea spokesperson Terence Conway and activists Eoin O'Leidhin and Diane Amber lay out the campaign's legal and public arguments, while Niall Harnett, who runs the solidarity camp set up near the site, shows how outside supporters folded themselves into a local dispute. The interviews move between kitchen tables, protest lines, and council chambers, tracking a fight that pits a multinational's engineering plan against people who say no one asked them first. The pipeline's route, and who gets to decide it, sits at the center of every conversation.