Coal Machinery Sabotaged in South Lanarkshire, Scotland

Late one night in ear­ly Jan­u­ary Pen­nile open cast coal mine was vis­it­ed by a num­ber of peo­ple who sab­o­taged machines. A total of 13 pieces of machin­ery were dam­aged, includ­ing one giant earth mover, six giant dumper trucks, four stan­dard sized earth movers and two flood light gen­er­a­tors.

Late one night in ear­ly Jan­u­ary Pen­nile open cast coal mine was vis­it­ed by a num­ber of peo­ple who sab­o­taged machines. A total of 13 pieces of machin­ery were dam­aged, includ­ing one giant earth mover, six giant dumper trucks, four stan­dard sized earth movers and two flood light gen­er­a­tors.

Recent­ly Pen­nile open cast fin­ished min­ing, but the machines Scot­tish Coal had work­ing there were sup­posed to be mov­ing to Main­shill Wood. How­ev­er as we all know Scot­tish Coal’s plans have been sub­stan­tial­ly dis­rupt­ed by the occu­pa­tion of the wood by the Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp.

This action was tak­en by autonomous peo­ple in sol­i­dar­i­ty with every­one who oppos­es the destruc­tion of Main­shill Wood and it’s devel­op­ment into anoth­er coal mine.