Appeal for international solidarity: Nianfors Uranium drilling blockade, Sweden

Activists organ­ise block­ade to pre­vent test drilling for Ura­ni­um in Nian­fors, North Swe­den. We appeal for your sup­port!!

Dur­ing the last three months local activists have been involved in a dis­pute with a drilling com­pa­ny over prospect­ing for ura­ni­um close to a small vil­lage called Nian­fors in north east Swe­den.

Nian­fors is locat­ed in a breath­tak­ing­ly beau­ti­ful val­ley at the foot of the Majs­aber­get Moun­tain, the area is renowned for it’s forests, crys­tal clear lakes and rivers which pro­vide habi­tat for a wide range of wildlife, flow­ers. insects and funghi.

In a bid to pre­vent test drilling activists have set up camp and have set up a block­ade to pre­vent test drilling going ahead. The weath­er con­di­tions this time of year are tough, some nights the tem­per­a­ture reach­es ‑20 the snow­fall can be up to 30cm deep, but peo­ple dress heav­i­ly and the com­radery is won­der­ful, so the spir­it is strong. We make food, sing songs and tell sto­ries among our­selves to pass the time.
Any com­rades who hap­pen to pass this way are wel­come to join us, every­one is wel­come (Except test drilling com­pa­nies!).

Our web­site is in Swedish and Eng­lish, so hope­ful­ly you can read about our cam­paign. We have post­ed an online Peti­tion and appeal to our com­rades to extend the hand of inter­na­tion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty and sign it.

We can pre­vent this, but we need all the sup­port we can get, so please cir­cu­late this mes­sage to as many oth­er com­rades as you can. Say ‘NO TO CORPORATE PLUNDERING OF OUR PLANET — NO TO NUCLEAR POWER!’

In com­rade­ship

Our site : www.nianfors.nu/engvers.html
Our online Peti­tion : http://www.nianfors.nu/engjustnu.html