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Peruvian Police Fire on Minas Conga Opponents AGAIN

Police protect equipment to be used for the planned Minas Conga gold mine in Cajamarca, Peru

20th Sep­tem­ber 2013, Two pieces from the ongo­ing strug­gle to stop the Minas Con­ga gold mine in Peru.

Police protect equipment to be used for the planned Minas Conga gold mine in Cajamarca, Peru

20th Sep­tem­ber 2013, Two pieces from the ongo­ing strug­gle to stop the Minas Con­ga gold mine in Peru.

First, from World War 4 Report:

Nation­al Police troops in Peru’s north­ern Caja­mar­ca province on Sept. 17 clashed with res­i­dents of Quishuar Cor­ral ham­let who were con­duct­ing reconas­siance of moun­tain trails on their com­mu­nal lands, which they sus­pect­ed the Yana­cocha min­ing com­pa­ny of ille­gal­ly clos­ing to facil­i­tate expan­sion of its oper­a­tions. Four of the vil­lagers were injured, and two hos­pi­tal­ized. Wit­ness­es said the police troops opened fire with­out warn­ing with rub­ber bul­lets and tear-gas can­nis­ters. (RPP, Sept. 17)

The clash took place as a nation­al Sum­mit of Peo­ples Affect­ed by Min­ing opened in the south­ern city of Are­quipa, attend­ed by over 200 rep­re­sen­ta­tives of campesino com­mu­ni­ties through­out Peru’s sier­ras. Among the head­lin­ing speak­ers was Wil­fre­do Saave­dra, leader of the Caja­mar­ca Envi­ron­men­tal Defense Front, who told a ral­ly gath­ered in the city’s Plaza de Armas: “Enough with our nat­ur­al resources being preyed upon and the envi­ron­ment of the coun­try being con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed!”  (La Repub­li­ca, Sept. 16)

Sec­ond, Upside Down World has pub­lished an arti­cle review­ing the his­to­ry of the fight against the mine, includ­ing an analy­sis of the ways in which Peru’s big min­ing push is intrin­si­cal­ly inter­twined with Peru and Brazil’s con­cur­rent push for more big hydro­elec­tric dams in the Ama­zon basin.

Hambach Forest is occupied again, but under eviction threat

Since the cli­mat- and reclaim the fields camp in ger­many, the Ham­bach For­est ist occu­pied again, by cli­mat activist. There are activists liv­ing at plat­tform­sin the trees since more than 2 weeks.

Since the cli­mat- and reclaim the fields camp in ger­many, the Ham­bach For­est ist occu­pied again, by cli­mat activist. There are activists liv­ing at plat­tform­sin the trees since more than 2 weeks. The Ham­bach For­est is one of the old­est for­est in mid­dle europe, but already more than 4/5 of it is destroyed for open cast min­ing. The open cast min­ing in the Rhein­land (between Colonge and Aachen) is the biggest cli­mat killer in all Europe. The for­est gets destroyed year by year, so that RWE the coal com­pa­ny (wich is the moth­er com­pa­ny of N‑Power) can open cast the land. Also big vil­lages get­ting destroyed for the open cast min­ing. Last year the for­est was occu­pied by cli­mat activist, the wohle spring and sum­mer, and got evict­ed in automne. The evic­tion was the longest evic­tion that hap­pened in ger­many, because of the tun­nel sys­tem (the only god sys­tem is a tun­nel sys­tem!). After the evic­tion activists squat­ted a mead­ow next to the Ham­bach For­est, wich is still occu­pied. In the end of august the cli­mat- and RTF Camp took place close to the Ham­bach For­est. With over 500 Par­tic­i­pants it was the biggest cli­mat camp since 5 years in ger­many. More than 200 peo­ple blocked the Ham­bach coal-rail for half an day. In the end of the cli­mat- andd RTF-Camp activists occu­pied the Ham­bach For­est again. Now it is occu­pied since more than 2 weeks. Police was there on mon­day to inspect the plat­tforms and blockad­ing-tools, and was not realy hap­py. In looks like the evic­tion might come the next days. But maybe they want to wait after the big elec­tions in ger­many this sun­day. So there might still be time to come over! See you in the for­est.

http://hambachforest.blogsport.de/

Here’s a video about the occu­pa­tion:http://vimeo.com/74042113

and about the coal trail block­ade: http://vimeo.com/73938171

and a video about the RTF-action: http://vimeo.com/73514620

 

Underreported Indigenous Struggles

A drilling site run by Fortune Minerals is shut down by Tahltan, Sept 10, 2013. 18th Sep­tem­ber 2013 Inter­con­ti­nen­tal Cry has released

A drilling site run by Fortune Minerals is shut down by Tahltan, Sept 10, 2013. 18th Sep­tem­ber 2013 Inter­con­ti­nen­tal Cry has released Under­re­port­ed Strug­gles #77.

• Two Maya Q’eqchi chil­dren from Monte Oli­vo com­mu­ni­ty, in Alta Ver­a­paz depart­ment, Guatemala, died from bul­let injuries after being shot by a “hit­man” that was report­ed­ly hired by the com­pa­ny Hidro San­ta Rita SA. Accord­ing to Real World Radio, the two chil­dren, aged 11 and 13, were shot dur­ing the attempt­ed mur­der of David Chen, leader of the resis­tance to the company’s hydro­elec­tric project. No one has been arrest­ed from mur­der of the two chil­dren, David Eduar­do Pacay Maas and Hageo Isaac Gui­tz.

• Three Indige­nous Tolu­pan from Yoro dis­trict in Hon­duras, were mur­dered while car­ry­ing out peace­ful actions to pre­vent ille­gal for­est clear­ing and exploita­tion of nat­ur­al resources in their ter­ri­to­ry. Accord­ing to The Broad Move­ment for Dig­ni­ty and Jus­tice (Movimien­to Amplio por la Dig­nidad y Jus­ti­cia, MADJ), the Tolu­pan had been receiv­ing death threats from indi­vid­u­als who were brazen­ly walk­ing around the com­mu­ni­ty ful­ly armed, pro­vok­ing fear in the res­i­dents of the area. The Nation­al Pre­ven­tive Police Force and var­i­ous gov­ern­ment offi­cials, despite being warned of the threats, failed to take any kind of action to pro­tect the Tolu­pan.

• In British Colom­bia, Cana­da, mem­bers of the well-known Klabona Keep­ers served For­tune Min­er­als Lim­it­ed with a “24-hour evic­tion notice” inform­ing the com­pa­ny that it must vacate the Tahltan’s unced­ed tra­di­tion­al ter­ri­to­ry. For­tune Min­er­als ignored the dead­line, lead­ing the Tahltan activists to block the road lead­ing to the site of the company’s pro­posed open pit coal mine. The pro­test­ers then pro­ceed­ed to occu­py some of the company’s drills.

• The Black­feet Trib­al Busi­ness Coun­cil unex­pect­ed­ly can­celled pro­posed oil and gas devel­op­ments near Chief Moun­tain . The moun­tain, locat­ed near the Cana­di­an bor­der and on the bound­ary between the Black­feet Indi­an Reser­va­tion and Glac­i­er Nation­al Park, is con­sid­ered sacred by many of the Black­feet peo­ple; how­ev­er, some mem­bers of the Black­feet busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty (like Ron Cross­guns of the Black­feet Oil and Gas Depart­ment), have deri­sive­ly dis­missed any­thing sacred about the Moun­tain.

• The Oglala Lako­ta passed a res­o­lu­tion oppos­ing the pro­posed Otter Creek coal mine and Tongue Riv­er Rail­road in their his­tor­i­cal home­lands of south­east­ern Mon­tana. The Oglala Lako­ta have thus far been exclud­ed from any con­sul­ta­tions despite the fact that the pro­posed mine site is an area of great cul­tur­al and his­tor­i­cal sig­nif­i­cance con­tain­ing count­less bur­ial sites, human remains, bat­tle sites, stone fea­tures and arti­facts. In addi­tion to call­ing for prop­er con­sul­ta­tion, the Oglala Lako­ta have called on all Trib­al Nations who signed the Fort Laramie Treaty to stand with them in oppos­ing the mine and rail­road.

• The Buf­fa­lo Riv­er Dene Nation is mov­ing for­ward with a plan to reclaim a vast area of tra­di­tion­al land that was seized by the Cana­di­an gov­ern­ment in 1953. As report­ed by the Domin­ion, the area–Spanning 11,700 square kilo­me­tres along the Alber­ta-Saskatchewan border–has been used for the past 60 years as a tac­ti­cal bomb­ing range; how­ev­er, it is now being opened up to oil and gas extrac­tion activ­i­ties and an Enbridge pipeline. The Buf­fa­lo Riv­er Dene, who were evict­ed from the area, have sim­ply had enough.

• The Nahua Peo­ples in the Peru­vian Ama­zon announced that they will refuse to allow a gas con­sor­tium led by Plus­petrol to oper­ate in their ter­ri­to­ry. In a let­ter that was deliv­ered to the Min­istry of Cul­ture in Lima, the Nahua stat­ed that, “Giv­en the repeat­ed bro­ken promis­es by the com­pa­ny Plus­petrol, our peo­ple have decid­ed to pro­hib­it it from oper­at­ing in our ances­tral ter­ri­to­ry in the head­wa­ters of the Riv­er Ser­jali.” Plus­petrol is cur­rent­ly wait­ing for gov­ern­ment per­mis­sion from the Min­istry of Ener­gy and Mines to explore for deposits by drilling 18 wells and con­duct­ing inten­sive seis­mic tests in the head­wa­ters region of the Riv­er Ser­jali, which the Nahua con­sid­er to be their ter­ri­to­ry.

Read all of Under­re­port­ed Strug­gles #77

Trial of anti-road protestor Emily Johns

11th Sep­tem­ber 2013 Tri­al of anti-road pro­tes­tor — and Combe Haven Defend­ers — Emi­ly Johns, arrest­ed dur­ing Oper­a­tion Dis­clo­sure in April: https://combeha

11th Sep­tem­ber 2013 Tri­al of anti-road pro­tes­tor — and Combe Haven Defend­ers — Emi­ly Johns, arrest­ed dur­ing Oper­a­tion Dis­clo­sure in April: https://combehavendefenders.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/st-leonards-woman-arrested-in-peaceful-search-for-secret-link-road-documents/

 

From 10am, West­min­ster Mag­is­trates Court, 181 Maryle­bone Road Lon­don Lon­don Eng­land NW1 5BR.

Fri­day 11 Octo­ber!  https://combehavendefenders.wordpress.com/save-combe-haven-events-calendar/

Sup­port­ers wel­come!

Balcombe frack-off latest

Day 48 (Tues 10th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (3:30pm): Pro­tec­tor cut off, arrest­ed and car­a­van moved. Come down and sup­port the com­mu­ni­ty.

Day 48 (Tues 10th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (3:30pm): Pro­tec­tor cut off, arrest­ed and car­a­van moved. Come down and sup­port the com­mu­ni­ty.

Update (2:00pm): Cuadrilla frack­ing truck blocked by Pro­tec­tor locked onto car­a­van in Bal­combe. Com­mu­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Camp is still going strong despite increased police harass­ment.

Update (12:45pm): Ambu­lance takes one Pro­tec­tor to hos­pi­tal with leg injury caused by Police vio­lence

Update (12:15pm): First frack­ing truck of day arrives and is being blocked by Pro­tec­tors.

Update (12:00pm): Com­mu­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Camp still hold­ing strong. Sit­u­a­tion pret­ty calm at moment. Lots of peo­ple here to sup­port Bal­combe but do come down to help if you can.

Update (11:00am): One of the three peo­ple arrest­ed for singing out­side Cuadrilla’s frack­ing site is a Bal­combe res­i­dent.

Update (10:30am): Police try­ing to intim­i­date camp but not here in large num­bers at present. Three arrests. More peo­ple would be good. Come down and sup­port the com­mu­ni­ty if you can.

Update (10am): The day has start­ed qui­et­ly. Despite media report to the con­trary the Coun­cil has no pow­ers to evict the camp and would need to go through a court process to try. Threats by the police to use a Sec­tion 14 CJPOA to evict the camp are clear­ly ille­gal (though obvi­ous­ly that is no guar­an­tee they won’t try) but the camp is hold­ing firm. Come down and sup­port the com­mu­ni­ty if you can.

Eviction of Ferrarisbos Forest Occupation Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium

groNoord logoAt 7am on Tues­day 3rd of Sep­tem­ber indi­vid­u­als occu­py­ing a wrong­ly zoned Far­raris for­est in Wilrijk were wok­en by the sound of chain­saws.

groNoord logoAt 7am on Tues­day 3rd of Sep­tem­ber indi­vid­u­als occu­py­ing a wrong­ly zoned Far­raris for­est in Wilrijk were wok­en by the sound of chain­saws. Break­ing the news to all that the for­est was being evict­ed. The first arrest of an indi­vid­ual in a tent on the ground, fol­lowed swift­ly: the tent was unzipped and the occu­pant ordered out although was not informed of their arrest or their rights. A cher­ry pick­er was used to gain access to the two plat­forms. One indi­vid­ual was lift­ed into the cher­ry pick­er and arrest­ed. Anoth­er indi­vid­ual was locked on, and a cut­ting team was used to break the lock on, remove the per­son and arrest them. A fourth indi­vid­ual, in a bed spi­ral (hang­ing tree­house) the tree was climbed and the indi­vid­ual removed and arrest­ed. The whole process took 2–3hrs, with­in 5hrs the for­est had been cut.

Local sup­port­ers and press were at first not allowed through to out­side the for­est. After some­time they man­aged to make their way through. Some locals chose to sar­cas­ti­cal­ly applaud as a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Essers went past. This result­ed in 3 indi­vid­u­als being admin­is­tra­tive­ly arrest­ed*.

Essers is the com­pa­ny respon­si­ble for the cut­ting of this for­est. Want­i­ng to build ware­house there, at present there is no known client for this ware­house as the pre­vi­ous prospec­tive ten­ant pulled out of the con­tract.
With­in Bel­gium there is zon­ing of land — land is des­ig­nat­ed for a par­tic­u­lar use. This is out of date and there­fore not accu­rate. Where for­est (as in this case) is zoned as indus­tri­al land it is very easy to acquire the nec­es­sary per­mits required to fell the for­est.
Fer­raris­bos for­est is land that in 1771 whilst Fer­raris was sur­vey­ing and map­ping Bel­gium was found to be for­est. This means the for­est that was felled 03/09/13 was over 250 years old.
Flan­ders (region with­in Bel­gium) has one of the low­est per­cent­ages of remain­ing wood­land in the EU with 8% of wood­lands remain­ing, 20% is con­sid­ered a “healthy” min­i­mum.
The for­est felled 03/09/13 was an impor­tant breed­ing habi­tat for over 20 bird species includ­ing wood­peck­ers. Also the for­est was the sum­mer home and hunt­ing ground to many bats pos­si­bly includ­ing endan­gered and pro­tect­ed species, and groups of red squir­rels. A Bel­gian Gov­ern­ment Agency advised that if felling was to take place it should hap­pen between the 15th of Sep­tem­ber and the 15th of Octo­ber or dur­ing the spring to ensure min­i­mal dis­rup­tion to the ani­mals liv­ing there.

There was a total of 7 arrests through­out the day, 4 of occu­piers of the for­est and 3 local sup­port­ers. All the arrests were admin­is­tra­tive*.
Of the occu­piers the first was quick­ly released due to hav­ing their pass­port with them. 2 were released after fin­ger­prints and pho­tos were tak­en. The one remain­ing occu­pi­er spoke no dutch and police refused to speak more than lim­it­ed Eng­lish to them, refused to pro­vide food and then informed them they would be tak­en to for­eign deten­tion at some point (between in 5 min­utes and 2 days). After becom­ing dis­tressed the indi­vid­ual gave their name and was then released after being dri­ven to a small street in Antwerp with no mon­ey, no idea of their loca­tion and no means of con­tact­ing any­one.

The 3 locals arrest­ed dur­ing the evic­tion of the for­est all chose to give their IDs result­ing in a short deten­tion for 2 of them. 1 was tak­en to prison, being told this would be for 12 months, after 5 hours they were released and put on tag for 3 months. It is unclear why and how this has hap­pened.

Fur­ther Action
Peo­ple from the Occu­pa­tion of the For­est have asked for sol­i­dar­i­ty demos out­side Bel­gian Embassies against the cut­ting of wrong­ly zoned forests.
Short­ly there will also be fur­ther infor­ma­tion for com­mu­ni­ca­tions block­ades.

*Admin­is­tra­tive Arrest is where an indi­vid­ual is arrest­ed for iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, this can last up to 12hrs if the indi­vid­ual choos­es to give their name or has ID on them. The arrest can last up to 24hrs if no name is giv­en.

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http://groenoord.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/kroniek-van-een-aangekondigde-ontbossing/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferraris_map

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28 Days Later / Balcombe anti-fracking protests update days 40–43

One Man Stop — 2nd September — Day 40

Update (14:45am): One pro­tec­tor locked on to frack­ing truck at the gate of Cuadrilla site in Bal­combe.

Update (11:45am): Two pro­tec­tors arrest­ed defend­ing Sus­sex from frack­ing.

One Man Stop — 2nd September — Day 40

Update (14:45am): One pro­tec­tor locked on to frack­ing truck at the gate of Cuadrilla site in Bal­combe.

Update (11:45am): Two pro­tec­tors arrest­ed defend­ing Sus­sex from frack­ing.

Update (9:30am): Police try­ing to force frack­ing truck through the com­mu­ni­ty pro­tec­tion block­ade. Come down and sup­port the com­mu­ni­ty.

Pro­tec­tor Locked On To Frack­ing Tanker Block­ing The Gate Of Cuadrilla Site In Bal­combe — Video

More info and pho­tos here

Day 41 (Tues 3rd) Of Community Fracking Blockade In Balcombe Sussex

Pro­tec­tor Locked On To Gate Of Cuadrilla Frack­ing Site In Bal­combe — Video

“I study envi­ron­men­tal sci­ence, I know this is wrong, I know this is mad and it’s just about mon­ey. I’ve cho­sen this action because nobody is lis­ten­ing. I’ve signed peti­tions, I’ve writ­ten to the EA. I’ve been here peace­ful­ly protest­ing for the last 6 weeks or longer. The gov­ern­men­t’s just not lis­ten­ing to its peo­ple. Once they start putting those chem­i­cals down into the water table they can­not get them out. I don’t want to leave this mess for the next gen­er­a­tion and I cer­tain­ly don’t want to say I did­n’t do any­thing to stop it.”

Day 43 — 5th September Of Community Fracking Blockade In Balcombe Sussex

Break­ing: #Bal­combe Com­mu­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Camp now has a tri­pod block­ing the road. Some cars can pass… looks like no trucks for a while… #Great­Gas­Gala #Frack_OFF #Cuadrilla

Day 43 of the Com­mu­ni­ty Block­ade in Bal­combe. This morn­ing one Pro­tec­tor is block­ing frack­ing trucks from enter­ing the Cuadrilla’s site with a tri­pod. The camp in Bal­combe is fight the threat of thou­sands of frack­ing wells spread­ing across Sus­sex and the UK.

Videos

 

Help­ful Infor­ma­tion for groups con­sid­er­ing action

 

News from the anti-MAT struggle in the Girona area of Catalonia

 

 

2nd of Sep­tem­ber, 2013:

News from the anti-MAT strug­gle in the Girona area of Cat­alo­nia

 

 

 

2nd of Sep­tem­ber, 2013:

News from the anti-MAT strug­gle in the Girona area of Cat­alo­nia

 

The active resis­tance camp against the MAT (very high ten­sion elec­tric­i­ty line) tak­ing place near Girona has squat­ted a huge, antique, aban­doned farm­house near the vil­lage of Orriols, in order to give con­ti­nu­ity to the strug­gle against this dead­ly project and the world which needs it. The resis­tance against the MAT has been active for more than a decade and has now reached a cru­cial point see­ing that the con­struc­tion of the line has now start­ed in this area and is going ahead at a furi­ous pace.

 

The police are con­stant­ly harass­ing the squat­ted zone and farm­house. This is the squat’s fifth day and the sec­ond day since the doors were opened to any­one who wish­es to con­tribute to the strug­gle against the MAT and intends to orga­nize col­lec­tive­ly in order to stop it. The lib­er­at­ed space, locat­ed very near to where two pylons are being con­struct­ed, is like sand in the gears and cogs of this machine of death and destruc­tion dri­ven by indus­tri­al­ists and politi­cians and defend­ed by the police and jour­nal­ists.

 

Dur­ing the last week of August the police pres­ence around the camp in Fellines and its activ­i­ties was very strong: peo­ple stopped and iden­ti­fied, provo­ca­tions, num­ber plates writ­ten down, con­stant patrolling along the sur­round­ing roads, protest march­es blocked, a heli­copter fly­ing above the camp and hov­er­ing near it at low alti­tude, pre­sum­ably tak­ing pho­tos, etc. How­ev­er, the harass­ment did not stop the peo­ple who came from all over the sur­round­ing areas, the Span­ish State and oth­er Euro­pean coun­tries, and even spurred them to inten­si­fy the strug­gle, as can be seen with this new squat­ted area which seems to have thrown the police off-bal­ance.

 

On the 1st of Sep­tem­ber it was made pub­lic knowl­edge that the aban­doned Mas Castel­ló farm­house had been squat­ted as a new space of resis­tance and coor­di­na­tion, and soon enough the police arrived in great num­bers, sud­den­ly wak­ing up to the fact that the action had tak­en place right under their noses and despite all their check­points. The bar­ri­cades built along the dirt track lead­ing to the house, the pres­ence of many peo­ple behind them and some oth­er resisters on the roof of the new squat, helped keep the police away, even though they tried to advance show­ing plas­tic bul­let guns, fir­ing a few shots into the air, per­haps bring­ing dogs to the scene, threat­en­ing and shout­ing and throw­ing rocks at the resisters in order to pro­voke them and thus cre­ate the legal sit­u­a­tion nec­es­sary for a speedy evic­tion order. Before night­fall, how­ev­er, the forces of repres­sion with­drew most of their faith­ful sol­diers, only to come back a lit­tle lat­er as a small group accom­pa­ny­ing the own­er of the house, shout­ing threats and try­ing to iden­ti­fy the peo­ple on the roof.

 

The night was qui­et but this morn­ing saw the arrival of many police vans yet again. Some of the bar­ri­cades have been removed by fire­fight­ers and by a trac­tor which was prob­a­bly ordered to do so by the own­er of the house. Some hours lat­er most of the vans filed away and the resisters got back to the tasks nec­es­sary in order to make Mas Castel­ló a meet­ing point for locals and non-locals who will con­tin­ue the strug­gle against this dead­ly megapro­ject.

 

Every­one is invit­ed to come and par­tic­i­pate to help defend the land around Girona. Peo­ple are arriv­ing but greater num­bers are nec­es­sary, so come and show your sup­port!

 

If you are unable to be phys­i­cal­ly present, express your sol­i­dar­i­ty in whichev­er way you see fit, wher­ev­er pos­si­ble and as soon as pos­si­ble.

 

 

Mas Castel­ló resists!

 

 

 

 

ELF fight against expansion of ski resort, Germany

Sep­tem­ber 2, 2013 — Ger­many

Sep­tem­ber 2, 2013 — Ger­many

The ELF has claimed respon­si­bil­i­ty for sab­o­tage at a ski resort on Wurm­berg moun­tain (Harz moun­tain range). Dur­ing the night of August 27, the win­dows of sev­er­al con­struc­tion vehi­cles were smashed, hydradulic hoses and elec­tric­i­ty cables cut on sev­er­al vehi­cles, a snow groomer, snow machines and at elec­tric­i­ty sta­tions, and the cable car infra­struc­ture was dam­aged. Paint­ed slo­gans were left behind, such as: “LASST DEN WALD LEBEN” (“LET THE FOREST LIVE”), “SKIANLAGEN SABOTIEREN” (“SABOTAGE SKI RESORTS”), “LET THE FOREST PROSPER”, “THERE’S NO TIME TO WAIT FOR CHANGE” and “SHOW YOUR DEDICATION THROUGH YOUR ACTION.” Dam­ages are esti­mat­ed at €100,000. The expan­sion of the ski area has been strong­ly crit­i­cized by envi­ron­men­tal orga­ni­za­tions. (pho­tos: goslarsche.de)

Anony­mous claim of respon­si­bil­i­ty (Ger­man), from linksunten.indymedia.org:

“In der Nacht vom 27. August auf den 28. August haben wir die Mit­tel­sta­tion der Lif­tan­lage des Skige­bi­etes am Wurm­berg sabotiert. Mit Farbe sprüht­en wir mehrere Botschaften an die Mauern der von der Wurm­berg Seil­bahn Gesellschaft betriebe­nen Anlage.

- ‘LASST DEN WALD LEBEN’
- ‘SKIANLAGEN SABOTIEREN’
- ‘LET THE FOREST PROSPER’
- ‘THERE’S NO TIME TO WAIT FOR CHANGE’
- ‘SHOW YOUR DEDICATION THROUGH YOUR ACTION’.

Wir haben zahlre­iche Scheiben des Gebäudes sowie von dort ste­hen­den Bau­fahrzeu­gen und von zwei Pis­ten­rau­pen eingeschla­gen. Wir durchtren­nten Kabel an Bau­fahrzeu­gen, Pis­ten­rau­pen und an eini­gen Stromkästen der Lift- und Beschneiungsan­la­gen.

Dies war ein notwendi­ger Akt des Wider­standes gegen die von der Wurm­berg Seil­bahn Gesellschaft fort­laufend vor­angetriebene Zer­störung der Natur am Wurm­berg. Eine Skian­lage, wie sie die Wurm­berg Seil­bahn Gesellschaft betreibt, ist in ihrer Entste­hung wie in ihrem Betrieb abzulehnen.
Dort, wo die natür­liche Umwelt aus­ge­beutet wird — also den Prof­it­in­ter­essen einzel­ner Akteure unter­wor­fen wird -, dort ist direk­ter Wider­stand gegen diese Aus­beu­tung unumgänglich! Deswe­gen ist die Wurm­berg Seil­bahn Gesellschaft zum Ziel unser­er Aktion gewor­den.

Der bere­its weit vor­angeschrit­tene Aus­bau des Skige­bi­etes am Wurm­berg macht ein­mal mehr das destruk­tive Ver­hält­nis der Men­schen zur Natur im Kap­i­tal­is­mus deut­lich. Über 16 Hek­tar Wald wur­den gerodet, um eine neue Lif­tan­lage, einen Groß­park­platz sowie neue Pis­ten­ab­fahrten an den Berghän­gen zu schaf­fen. Die Bäume, die übrig sind, im Rodungs­ge­bi­et jet­zt plöt­zlich am Rand der Baum­grup­pen ste­hen, wer­den durch Wind­bruch zusät­zlich gefährdet sein. Auch sollen mehrere Beschneiungsan­la­gen neu gebaut wer­den, die kün­stlich erzeugten Schnee auf den Pis­ten verteilen. Dafür wird aus dem Wasser­schutzge­bi­et der War­men Bode Wass­er ent­nom­men und ein riesiger Spe­ich­ersee auf dem Gipfel angelegt. Diese Kun­stschneep­is­ten wer­den bei Nacht dann weiträu­mig mit Flut­lichtschein­wer­fern aus­geleuchtet. Den Tieren, die noch nicht aus ihrem Leben­sraum ver­trieben wur­den, wird das Leben in ihrer ursprünglichen Umge­bung zur Unerträglichkeit gemacht. Der Lärm und das Licht der Win­ter­sportan­lage wird den Wald stetig belas­ten. Da hil­ft es auch nichts, dass die Wurm­berg Seil­bahn Gesellschaft — zur Vortäuschung der eige­nen Umwelt­fre­undlichkeit — von kün­fti­gen Berg­wiesen an den gerode­teten Hän­gen und von Auf­forstun­gen an einem anderen Ort spricht.

Der Wald am Wurm­berg ist zer­stört. Er wird nie wieder so wer­den wie er ein­mal war. Die Kon­se­quenz daraus muss sein, die Zer­störung jet­zt auf das destruk­tive Skige­bi­et zu ver­lagern, um dem Wald Stück für Stück seinen Raum zurück­zugeben, damit er, sich selb­st über­lassen, frei von Aus­beu­tung existieren kann.

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Balcombe anti-fracking protests update days 25–39

Day 37 (Fri 30th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (10:30am): One pro­tec­tor arrest­ed defend­ing Sus­sex from frack­ing.

Update (9:30am): Police try­ing to force frack­ing truck through com­mu­ni­ty blokade.

 

Day 34 (Tues 26th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Day 37 (Fri 30th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (10:30am): One pro­tec­tor arrest­ed defend­ing Sus­sex from frack­ing.

Update (9:30am): Police try­ing to force frack­ing truck through com­mu­ni­ty blokade.

 

Day 34 (Tues 26th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (5:00pm): One pro­tec­tor arrest­ed today as police con­tin­ue to force frack­ing trucks through the block­ade for Cuadrilla.

Update (10:30am): First frack­ing truck of the day.

 

Day 28 (Wed 21st) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (3pm): All Pro­tec­tors who were in Craw­ley Mag­is­trates Court today have been giv­en bail con­di­tions that allow them to return to the camp.

Update (1pm): For­est camp evict­ed by police.

Update (12pm): Police are try­ing to ille­gal­ly evict (with­out a court order) the for­est camp (small­er camp in wood­land next to the Cuadrilla rig site, not main camp on grass verge) at Bal­combe. Come sup­port the com­mu­ni­ty!

 

Day 27 (Tue 20th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (10:40am): Anoth­er frack­ing truck being blocked.

Update (9:30am): Frack­ing truck forced through com­mu­ni­ty block­ade by police. One Pro­tec­tor arrest­ed.

 

Days 25/26 — the Reclaim the Pow­er block­ade and more updates/photos here