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Anniversary of the first week at Shipley Bodge

Dave Bolton | 24.06.2008 22:23 | Climate Chaos

It has been a week already since climate chaos activists took occupation of a farm house on the site of the UK’s newest open cast site. Here is an update.

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Rudolph locks on
Rudolph locks on







Here comes the concrete
Here comes the concrete


UK Coal have started some preparatory works at the Shipley open cast site. Many Tonnes of concrete has been cast to reinforce the public access road near the squatted site. This is allow 200 tonne machines to travel back and forth without doing damage to the public right of way. (I’ll pause here while you un-flabbergast yourself………)


Meanwhile, further along Bell Lane, telecom engineers were busy with their underground cable detectors. I don’t know why they couldn’t just phone BT and ask where they put them!

Clearly the angry owner of Whitehouse Farm gatehouse (map ref SK41619 44026) is gradually getting knackered from having to keep opening the gate for vehicles on UK Coal business, as he was having fancy new hinges fitted to the gateposts.

The route is still passable on foot or horse, which is just as well. We have confirmed with Derbyshire County Council that the path from Smalley to the gate at Whitehouse Farm is a designated footpath and from there to Shipley Park it is a public bridleway. The Rights of Way Officers at DCC are very keen to hear of any problems members of the public experience when trying to exercise their right to travel freely along this path.

There is no problem with vehicle access from the Shipley Park end, although the gate may be locked on Sundays (please confirm before you travel)

Meanwhile, back at Shipley Bodge…

The new residents have continued to modernise the old farmhouse so it now boasts a loft apartment, new flags and exterior décor. The garden has not been overlooked with nice new fencing, and several tree-houses under construction.


The protesters are in good spirits and well stocked but please keep the supplies coming. People are also needed, for an hour, a day or preferably longer.

Please bring water, timber and food etc.

Map attached of the local area. See centre feature for more information.

 http://www.leaveitintheground.org.uk

Dave Bolton

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Pretty pics from Bodge House

25.06.2008 10:29









Photos from the wet weekend at Bodge House, which looks as if it was a lovely family home before they were evicted.. go visit! - lets stop them trashing this land to burn more coal.

leave it in the ground
- Homepage: http://leaveitintheground.org.uk


Concrete ?

25.06.2008 12:31

On your wish list you have Concrete ! Are you serious, are you aware of the enviromental impact of concrete. There are many alternative building materiels far better suited to a project like this

Cement is one of the most environmentally hazardous materials in the world, adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than the entire weight of the global airline industry. According to the Sustainable Development Commission, 4% of Co2 is caused by aviation. Depending on how conservatively you do the sums, cement-based building materials, including concrete and asphalt, account for between 5% and 10% of all carbon dioxide emissions

I have been following the development of something called C-Fix, sometimes referred to as carbon concrete, a "thermoplastic" heavy-duty binder developed by Shell and the University of Delft and already in use on the two busiest roads in the Netherlands. It is suitable, for replacing 90% of concrete and asphalt applications. But it is the environmental benefits that excites me. Three-and-a-half tons of carbon dioxide is saved by using a ton of carbon concrete rather than regular concrete

This seemingly gravity-defying equation stems from the fact that the environmental benefits of C-Fix are twofold. To produce a road, or a sea defence, and not use cement as a binding agent obviously stops that cement being produced, which stops the carbon from the cement production entering the atmosphere. The other benefit comes from making a practical use of what would otherwise be waste.

It works like this. When crude oil is "cracked" into its components, the top of the refinement process produces petrol, followed by diesel, light fuel oil and then heavy fuel oil. At the bottom of the barrel lies a "fraction" of blackened waste material. It is hard and sticky and of scant economic worth. The standard way of dealing with this low-grade oil is to mix it with light fuel oil to make more heavy fuel oil, It gets burnt off and doesn't have to be treated as a waste. But that burning causes further CO2 emissions that cause global warming.


PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not use concrete at this site.


ac/dc


what did you do, daddy?

25.06.2008 19:25

Alan's a bit worried that Daddy picture's about him!

To daddies everywhere - go and do something to make sure it isn't, eh?

Keep up the good work, Prospect Bodgers!

mummy


for the moment we must fight a big fire with a little fire

25.06.2008 22:10

ACDC I/we know that cement production is a very filthy business but the fact is a well built concrete lockon takes the earth destroyers a very long time to break someone out of. You're way ahead of the mark promoting carbon concrete at this moment in time. I can guarantee one wouldn't be able to buy this stuff at any local builders merchant and I notice you haven't so much as posted a single link to where it can be obtained. You also don't describe whether this stuff can be simply mixed on site for I can find no details at all of how this is done and so have to assume that it has to be pre-ordered in huge quantities from a factory. I think you're being completely and unrealistically purist here. This coal mine if dug will result in MILLIONS of tons of CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere from the burning coal and you're quibbling about 100 or 200 kg CO2 from 1 or 2 25kg bags of cement that could produce several lockons? A tiny drop in the ocean. Lighten up.

old builder