Mainshill Drilling Vehicles Sabotaged

21/10/2009
An anony­mous com­mu­nique was received after two machines used for drilling and test­ing for coal on site were sab­o­taged in the ear­ly hours of Tues­day morn­ing… The com­mu­nique reads:

“On the morn­ing of Tues­day the 20th of Octo­ber two heavy vehi­cles had their Fuel lines, wires, gears and fuel tanks destroyed. Their win­dows and bod­ies where also spray­paint­ed.

21/10/2009
An anony­mous com­mu­nique was received after two machines used for drilling and test­ing for coal on site were sab­o­taged in the ear­ly hours of Tues­day morn­ing… The com­mu­nique reads:

“On the morn­ing of Tues­day the 20th of Octo­ber two heavy vehi­cles had their Fuel lines, wires, gears and fuel tanks destroyed. Their win­dows and bod­ies where also spray­paint­ed.
The vehi­cles dam­aged have been work­ing to pre­pare the Main­shill Wood area for coal extrac­tion. If it is open cast­ed then it will join sev­er­al oth­er mines in the Dou­glas Val­ley, two of which are cur­rent­ly expand­ing.
Scot­tish Coal, the land own­er Lord Home and the gov­ern­ment and more than pre­pared to sac­ri­fice the health of local com­mu­ni­ties and envi­ron­ment, as well as con­tribute to cli­mate change and near­ly uni­ver­sal envi­ron­men­tal degra­da­tion for wages, bonus­es, tar­gets and prof­its.
This action was tak­en by a group of autonomous peo­ple in sol­i­dar­i­ty with all those who oppose the devel­op­ment of Main­shill Wood into an open cast coal mine.”