Soooo, after our undercover ops and of course religiously being told by Ciarán that I wouldn’t find any evidence of illegal fuel dumping- SURPRISE SURPRISE- I didn’t!!! No sooner was this ‘fuel’ dumped, it was immediately cleared up and taken away by the local authorities. Now, it was dumped in plain sight and even though it was on border back roads, it was always at or near, as I said before, a well-known landmark or site. It’s as if, by being seen and out in the open, it would immediately get cleared up. So really, the authorities were doing their job for them- saving them the effort…
I knew in my head that I wanted to physically ‘see’ this substance and maybe use it as part of some exploratory print making process so I had to think of Plan B. By putting our heads together, Ciarán knew that the green diesel and its by-products had prolifically been dumped into one of our local rivers, so that’s when we decided we had to get some of this water!!!!
After another secret, undercover operation in his daddy’s Hiace van, we parked at the side of a very, very busy road as the river was flowing underneath it. Ciarán jumped the fence, probably DIDN’T trespass into someone’s field, bypassed their horses and VERY quickly filled a plastic milk carton with water. Mission accomplished and let’s just say…we ran back to that van and started her up very quickly!!!!
