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Eco-warrior takes on drilling rig...

Nessuno | 22.09.2009 10:35 | Climate Chaos | South Coast | World

Early this morning an action was mounted by the residents of Mainshill Solidarity camp in South Lanarkshire.

During this morning, an action was launched against scottish coal drilling rigs at the mainshill open cast protest site. Mainshill will shortly begin digging up 1.7 million tons of coal if the protesters lose this battle.

An experienced eco warrior from the camp succeeded breaking through the security guard ring protecting the drilling rig and scaled it. The protest is still ongoing as we speak. All work on the site has ground to a halt.

Mainshill desparately needs people to camp at the site in support of the protests- so if you have the time to meet some cool people who will teach you real activist skills in the art of environmental protests, then spend a week camping at Mainshill.

Please search for scottish climate camp news

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/08/435822.html

 http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/

more news later

Nessuno

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Work stopped at Mainshill Wood - Crucial time at Mainshill Solidarity Camp

23.09.2009 14:18





Yesterday people from Mainshill Solidarity Camp took action to stop work on the proposed site for Scottish Coal's opencast mine. One person climbed up to the top of the drilling rig and stopped their work for five hours. The police arrived and the protester was told that she would be arrested...if only they could get her to come down. Eventually, after much head-scratching, specialist police climbers managed to remove her and she was arrested, appearing in Lanark Sheriff Court this morning.

Over the past week, drilling equipment has been moved onto the site as well as harvesting machines to log plantation trees to make way for the coal excavation. This work has been delayed by people from the camp and members of the local community approaching machinery and explaining the devastating effects that the coal mine will bring - ranging from impacts on local community health, to climate and ecological damage. The work that is being done now is all in preparation for the opencast and needs to be stopped.

This is a crucial time for this campaign to show Lord Home, the wealthy land owner and Scottish Coal that we will not allow this project to go ahead.

This morning, police escorted felling machines and Scottish Woodland workers onto the site, removing a barricade and cutting down a tree defense that had blocked the track. The police's involvement in protecting the interests of aristocrat Lord Home and private company Scottish Coal over the interests of the local community is very disappointing.

Now is a great time for people to come and join us at the camp and to take action to continue our resistance.

For more information on the ongoing campaign and news from the Public Meeting on Community Health, which is taking place tonight in Douglas, see  http://mainshill.noflag.org.uk.

Mainshill Solidarity Camp
- Homepage: http://mainshill.noflag.org.uk


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Good luck :)

22.09.2009 10:54

You guys are brilliant, good luck to all of you

Kia


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