Machines locked-on to at Mainshill again in two days of continuous action

27.10.2009
At 7.30am this morn­ing, two peo­ple locked-on to har­vest­ing machin­ery attempt­ing to make its way into Main­shill Wood, in an ongo­ing strug­gle to stop work at the site and stop Scot­tish Coal’s attempts to turn the site into an open­cast coal mine.

27.10.2009
At 7.30am this morn­ing, two peo­ple locked-on to har­vest­ing machin­ery attempt­ing to make its way into Main­shill Wood, in an ongo­ing strug­gle to stop work at the site and stop Scot­tish Coal’s attempts to turn the site into an open­cast coal mine.

This comes after yes­ter­day’s sev­en hour block­ade of the access to the site, involv­ing mas­sive bar­ri­cades and lock-ons, and last night’s actions to stop trees being felled at mid­night. Last night, machin­ery was forced off site and back into its own fenced com­pound as once again, log­gers tried to fell trees at night, dan­ger­ous­ly close to tree­hous­es, tun­nels and oth­er defences.

These two days of action fol­low weeks of relent­less action to stop the work that has start­ed at Main­shill Wood. As well as occu­py­ing the main access and sub­stan­tial area of the site, the Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp has block­ad­ed access roads, jumped on machin­ery, climbed trees and groups of anony­mous activist act­ing in sol­i­dar­i­ty have sab­o­taged equip­ment con­tin­u­ous­ly.

This strug­gle is the front line in the fight against new coal, cli­mate chaos and envi­ron­men­tal injus­tice, where com­mu­ni­ties are destroyed by cor­rupt gov­ern­ment and cor­po­rate greed. Join us at the camp!

Also — Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp Gath­er­ing this week­end com­ing — 31st Octo­ber & 1st Novem­ber
http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/?page_id=827

And — Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp Octo­ber Newslet­ter out now!
http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/?p=855

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