Machinery occupied near anti-pipeline camp (plus camp directions, carnival footage, news of court ruling on terminal…)

2.04.2007

Activists have once again climbed on machin­ery to delay work on Nation­al Grid’s 200 mile gas pipeline. Work was stopped near the anti-pipeline tree camp for sev­er­al hours on two con­sec­u­tive days.

Trees around the anti-pipeline tree camp in Pen­pont have been chopped down in recent days and heavy machin­ery has been brought in to enable work on the pipeline to start in the area. How­ev­er, the anti-pipeline camp has still not been evict­ed. More peo­ple are urgent­ly need­ed to take part in the grow­ing resis­tance to the pipeline, which is caus­ing huge destruc­tion to the envi­ron­ment and pos­es seri­ous safe­ty risks.

For more infor­ma­tion on the dam­ag­ing effects of the pipeline: fightthepipe.co.uk

DIRECTIONS to Pen­pont tree camp:

The protest camp is in ancient wood­land at Pen­pont, 4 miles west of Bre­con on the A40 close to Bet­tws Pen­pont church. It is locat­ed at Ord­nance Sur­vey nation­al grid ref­er­ence SN9728728525. There is a bus going from Cardiff coach sta­tion to Bre­con town (X43, takes aprox 1hr, costs around £4). From the bus stop you get off at in Bre­con town (the only bus stop there) there is anoth­er bus that goes right past the camp (£1.60, aprox 10 mins- ask dri­ver for tree camp, you will prob­a­bly see ban­ners on the left).

DONATIONS:

Peo­ple on site are request­ing any dona­tions. Please send sup­plies of all sorts, espe­cial­ly beams for build­ing, tarp, rope, nails, D‑locks, heavy chains, stuff for lock-ons (sand, cement, grav­el.), har­ness­es and oth­er climb­ing gear, scrap met­al, cud­dles etc etc etc.
We can use almost any tat…

Please come vis­it the camp before it’s too late!

Footage of Sat­ur­day 24th March Tre­banos car­ni­val against pipeline.

News of court rul­ing stop­ping work on ter­mi­nal — http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6510957.stm