Activists stop work on gas pipe line Alltwen, Wales

16th Jan ’07 — At 9am this morn­ing a con­struc­tion site in Alltwen was stormed by activists, climb­ing cranes and lock­ing-on with d‑locks by their necks. Work was stopped on the con­tro­ver­sial LNG pipeline for five and a half hours, adding to the list of recent delays.
The pro­test­ers this morn­ing were met with aggres­sion, one had her cam­era snatched and dam­aged, whilst oth­ers were threat­ened with vio­lence. After one activist climbed a crane, locked on by his neck, the oper­a­tor of the crane then decid­ed to move the crane about, seri­ous­ly endan­ger­ing the activist’s life — watch the video (video/x‑ms-wmv 4.3MB).
Also con­struc­tion work­ers ini­tial­ly kept on using heavy machin­ery on the site despite being advised not to due to health and safe­ty rea­sons.

It is the eighth day that work has been stopped at the Tre­banos camp across the val­ley. Sup­port con­tin­ues to grow for the cam­paign with more num­bers get­ting involved dai­ly.
The pipe, to be 115 miles long rips right through wales, hav­ing dev­as­tat­ing effects on the welsh coun­try­side.
This action is just a small part of a big cam­paign to fight the pipe!
Cur­rent­ly we are occu­py­ing a pub­lic foot­path stop­ping access to the con­struc­tion site in the vil­lage of Tre­banos. We also have a house which is a safe base to do actions from.
Come to wales and be at the front line of britain’s eco-defence! Loads more actions
are planned and more sites too.
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