Climate Camp Have Occupied land near Gogarburn RBS HQ

Update, Thurs­day 19th:
The to-be-dra­mat­ic “Swoop” to occu­py the site of Cli­mate Camp in Edin­burgh was­n’t so dra­mat­ic. As the site, in RBS’s back gar­den, had been tak­en the night before, many peo­ple were already onsite and much (all?) risk tak­en out of the swoop process.So four sep­a­rate meet­ing places to avoid con­tain­ment were replaced with a sin­gle one, sun­ny St Andrews Square, where around 60 heav­i­ly-laden campers gath­ered, chat­ted and then left to go to the site. On the X48 bus, much to the relief of those with an Edin­burgh A‑Z.

RBS climate camp tripod entranceCamp for Climate Action set-up by RBS HQUpdate, Thurs­day 19th:
The to-be-dra­mat­ic “Swoop” to occu­py the site of Cli­mate Camp in Edin­burgh was­n’t so dra­mat­ic. As the site, in RBS’s back gar­den, had been tak­en the night before, many peo­ple were already onsite and much (all?) risk tak­en out of the swoop process.So four sep­a­rate meet­ing places to avoid con­tain­ment were replaced with a sin­gle one, sun­ny St Andrews Square, where around 60 heav­i­ly-laden campers gath­ered, chat­ted and then left to go to the site. On the X48 bus, much to the relief of those with an Edin­burgh A‑Z.

As of 4pm, campers were busy set­ting up. Mains water is being arranged with the co-oper­a­tion of the Coun­cil. Mar­quees are being erect­ed and kitchens tak­ing shape. The entrance to the Camp pro­vides a view over the back win­dows and lawn of RBS’s glob­al HQ, carved out of the green belt scant months before its hubris­tic col­lapse. There was­n’t too much activ­i­ty vis­i­ble there in the after­noon. Police and secu­ri­ty guards are post­ed at each entrance but there’s a marked lack of ten­sion com­pared with pre­vi­ous years.

Those with time are encour­aged to come along and help set-up for the Cam­p’s offi­cial start on Sat­ur­day.

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18.8.10
At 9.15PM tonight Cli­mate Camp took the site on RBS HQ. Get on site as fast as you can! Defence help urgent­ly need­ed. Come to RBS Gog­a­r­burn Gar­dens, off Gog­ar Sta­tion Rd. x

Three cli­mate activists were arrest­ed by Scot­tish police as they took the site for the Camp for Cli­mate Action in Edin­burgh which set up very close to the Roy­al Bank of Scot­land Head­quar­ters at Gog­a­r­burn Gar­dens off Gog­ar Sta­tion Road just after 9pm yes­ter­day evening.
It is under­stood that the three who were arrest­ed have all been released with­out charge.

Loth­i­an Bus No. 48 can be tak­en there from Princess Street going North/West going towards West End of princes street.
Looks like the 10, 16 and 35 will all take you ten min­utes’ walk from where cli­mate camp is hap­pen­ing (get off at the ‘RBS HQ’ stop)!
RBS is a 30 minute walk from Edin­burgh park sta­tion

At night when Num­ber 48 not run­ning one can take the N22, goes a longer route but ends up near­by.