Work Stopped at Shipley Open Cast Coal Mine Site

26th Feb 2009
This morn­ing a group of four ex-local res­i­dents, not affil­i­at­ed with any par­tic­u­lar group went dig­ger div­ing at the Ship­ley Open Cast Coal Mine.

Shipley soul bannerShipley soul security26th Feb 2009
This morn­ing a group of four ex-local res­i­dents, not affil­i­at­ed with any par­tic­u­lar group went dig­ger div­ing at the Ship­ley Open Cast Coal Mine.

Work was stopped for one hour and a half. The pro­tes­tors left when the police turned up.

The police entered into dis­cus­sion with UK Coal about cre­at­ing a more per­me­nant space for peo­ple to protest at, the police sug­gest­ed some kind of shel­ter. UK Coal declined, stat­ing that they were wor­ried the pro­tes­tors would turn the shel­ter into a “con­crete lock-on”.

No arrests were made.

Same ban­ner; dif­fer­ent protest.