Huntington Lane Camp launched

After dis­cov­er­ing last week that many of the trees had already been felled sig­nal­ing that work was due to begin immi­nent­ly, West Mid­lands Cli­mate Action and a coali­tion of local groups and activists last week swooped upon the Hunt­ing­ton Lane Sur­face Mine Site to claim the land.

Huntington Lane CampAfter dis­cov­er­ing last week that many of the trees had already been felled sig­nal­ing that work was due to begin immi­nent­ly, West Mid­lands Cli­mate Action and a coali­tion of local groups and activists last week swooped upon the Hunt­ing­ton Lane Sur­face Mine Site to claim the land. We’ve had a camp set up on the pro­posed open-cast site for about a week now. There’s a com­mu­nal sleep­ing area, fire pit, a wood store and plans for a lodge. Ear­li­er today rep­re­sen­ta­tives from UK Coal vis­it­ed the camp to find out our ‘list of demands’ and didn’t seem pleased with the response, that we want­ed them to call a halt to all open cast coal min­ing on this site!

We urgent­ly need as many peo­ple to come down to the camp as pos­si­ble.

Dona­tions of all kinds are most wel­come, whether it be time, mon­ey, mate­ri­als or kind thoughts. Please see the wish list below for the ‘most want­ed’ items on site and per­haps pop along and see us if you can.

The usu­al kind of stuff is need­ed:

Food (and teabags please)
Tarps – the big­ger the bet­ter!
Tools of all kinds
Rope of all kinds
Fire bricks (for the sweat lodge!)
Stove pipe etc for a rock­et stove
Com­post toi­lets
Tripods
Peo­ple

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To keep up with all the lat­est news the camp now has it’s own blog http://defendhuntingtonlane.wordpress.com/

We’ll see you on site.