Anti-Coal Protest raft sails down River Seven

On Sun­day 31st res­i­dents from the Hunt­ing­ton Lane Camp took their mes­sage onto the riv­er Sev­en and sailed it down­stream. The six per­son raft com­plete with a big “No New Coal” ban­ner and UK Coal dig­ger fig­ure­head sailed down the Riv­er Sev­en and past EON’s Build­was B coal fired pow­er sta­tion which is where the coal from Hunt­ing­ton Lane will even­tu­al­ly end up. It then sailed fur­ther down­stream and under the famous Iron Bridge where it was meet with cheers from a crowd of locals and tourists who had gath­ered on the bridge.

No New Coal Raft
On Sun­day 31st res­i­dents from the Hunt­ing­ton Lane Camp took their mes­sage onto the riv­er Sev­en and sailed it down­stream. The six per­son raft com­plete with a big “No New Coal” ban­ner and UK Coal dig­ger fig­ure­head sailed down the Riv­er Sev­en and past EON’s Build­was B coal fired pow­er sta­tion which is where the coal from Hunt­ing­ton Lane will even­tu­al­ly end up. It then sailed fur­ther down­stream and under the famous Iron Bridge where it was meet with cheers from a crowd of locals and tourists who had gath­ered on the bridge.

There was also a team on land who were rais­ing aware­ness of the camp by talk­ing to the peo­ple on the river­side and bridge about what they were doing and why they where doing it. Gen­er­al­ly most peo­ple were sup­port­ive and pos­i­tive about the cam­paign. The event also had a fair bit of local media over­age with the Shrop­shire Star and Mid­lands Today both cov­er­ing it.

The camp has now been stop­ping work at Hunt­ing­ton Lane almost six months, if you want to help then dona­tions of food, tools and water are always appre­ci­at­ed as are new faces at the camp

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