Category: Wales

Wales

concrete lock-on tips (following Parliament Square blockade)

If they took only 20 mins to demol­ish each lock­on then your con­crete does­n’t sound up to scratch. Don’t mean to brag but a sim­i­lar lock on I once built took them 6 hours to demol­ish with jack ham­mers and angle grinders. In future you need to include some met­al rein­forc­ing mesh or crinkly rebar rods, either off­cuts of the prop­er stuff from builders skips or sawn up super­mar­ket trol­leys are ok. Includ­ing met­al mesh serves not only to bind the con­crete togeth­er but it spreads the shock­wave from jack ham­mers through­out the mate­r­i­al rather than allow­ing it to be con­cen­trat­ed at the chis­el tip. Also good to include some short lengths of blue 6mm rope which pre­vents the forces of dark­ness from being able to sep­a­rate the chunks of frag­ment­ed con­crete which real­ly winds them up. The oth­er real­ly impor­tant things are to use fresh­ly bought cement, be sure your con­crete mix is very thor­ough­ly mixed — absolute­ly no sandy or cemen­ty streaks vis­i­ble — and then poured in less than 20 mins or so and when pour­ing it, don’t do it all in one go but ram or tamp (jig­gle and shake) it in thor­ough­ly into the con­tain­er in stages with the end of a bit of 4 x 2. Your con­crete looks like it has voids in it which is always a con­sid­er­able weak­ness. Good luck with future coura­geous actions.

Lock-on after drillingIf they took only 20 mins to demol­ish each lock­on then your con­crete does­n’t sound up to scratch. Don’t mean to brag but a sim­i­lar lock on I once built took them 6 hours to demol­ish with jack ham­mers and angle grinders. In future you need to include some met­al rein­forc­ing mesh or crinkly rebar rods, either off­cuts of the prop­er stuff from builders skips or sawn up super­mar­ket trol­leys are ok. Includ­ing met­al mesh serves not only to bind the con­crete togeth­er but it spreads the shock­wave from jack ham­mers through­out the mate­r­i­al rather than allow­ing it to be con­cen­trat­ed at the chis­el tip. Also good to include some short lengths of blue 6mm rope which pre­vents the forces of dark­ness from being able to sep­a­rate the chunks of frag­ment­ed con­crete which real­ly winds them up. The oth­er real­ly impor­tant things are to use fresh­ly bought cement, be sure your con­crete mix is very thor­ough­ly mixed — absolute­ly no sandy or cemen­ty streaks vis­i­ble — and then poured in less than 20 mins or so and when pour­ing it, don’t do it all in one go but ram or tamp (jig­gle and shake) it in thor­ough­ly into the con­tain­er in stages with the end of a bit of 4 x 2. Your con­crete looks like it has voids in it which is always a con­sid­er­able weak­ness. Good luck with future coura­geous actions.

Nev­er ever use ordi­nary “build­ing” or soft sand which is only used for brick­lay­ing and will make very crumbly con­crete indeed. You should be using all in bal­last which is sharp sand already mixed with peb­bles. In some parts of the coun­try — most­ly the north — you can’t get this so will have to mix your own using SHARP sand and mixed size peb­bles from pea size up to the size of brazil nuts or so.

ID-DAY — National Day of Action against ID CARDS 26/3/07

DEFY ID CARDS & THE DATABASE STATE

TAKE BIG BROTHER DOWN

ID-DAY

Is a nation­al day of autonomous action against ID cards and the Data­base state.
Across the coun­try peo­ple will be protest­ing against the open­ing of the new ID ‘enrol­ment’ cen­tres.

DEFY ID CARDS & THE DATABASE STATE

TAKE BIG BROTHER DOWN

ID-DAY

Is a nation­al day of autonomous action against ID cards and the Data­base state.
Across the coun­try peo­ple will be protest­ing against the open­ing of the new ID ‘enrol­ment’ cen­tres.

Call for workshops at the Earth First! Summer Gathering 2007

This year’s gath­er­ing is from 18 — 22 July in Nor­folk, near a main­line rail­way sta­tion.

The focus is on prac­ti­cal skills, but there will also be many of the reg­u­lar diverse and inter­est­ing work­shops.

EF! summer gathering 2007 logoThis year’s gath­er­ing is from 18 — 22 July in Nor­folk, near a main­line rail­way sta­tion.

The focus is on prac­ti­cal skills, but there will also be many of the reg­u­lar diverse and inter­est­ing work­shops.

The idea is to have mul­ti­ple work­shop ses­sions, e.g. four two-hour slots spread over four days build­ing up skills in a par­tic­u­lar area, so peo­ple can learn the basic skills to actu­al­ly do the job at oth­er mobil­i­sa­tions, events like the cli­mate camp — or wher­ev­er. For exam­ple plumb­ing, elec­tri­cal skills, medics…and what­ev­er else peo­ple want to do… It’s not just about the prac­ti­cal skills but also about get­ting to know each oth­er and start­ing to work togeth­er.

If you would like to offer a work­shop please write to:
martinshaw64@riseup.net

Thanks — the EF! sum­mer gath­er­ing col­lect­ing
Gen­er­al con­tact details etc at http://www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk/

please for­ward to peo­ple you think would be inter­est­ed.

documentary: Reclaim Power — voices from the camp for climate action 2006

In the sum­mer of 2006, 600 peo­ple con­vinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Cli­mate Action in the shad­ow of one of the biggest C02 emit­ters in Europe: Drax coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in York­shire / UK. Cine Rebelde pro­duced a doc­u­men­tary film about the camp.

Cli­mate change is now a real­i­ty. Lead­ing sci­en­tists across the world agree that in a ’busi­ness as usu­al sce­nario’ we have no longer than 10 years to pre­vent 2–3 degrees of addi­tion­al glob­al arm­ing that will lead to irre­versible cli­mat­ic changes with dra­mat­ic con­se­quences for our plan­et.

Climate camp view from gateIn the sum­mer of 2006, 600 peo­ple con­vinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Cli­mate Action in the shad­ow of one of the biggest C02 emit­ters in Europe: Drax coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in York­shire / UK. Cine Rebelde pro­duced a doc­u­men­tary film about the camp.

Cli­mate change is now a real­i­ty. Lead­ing sci­en­tists across the world agree that in a ’busi­ness as usu­al sce­nario’ we have no longer than 10 years to pre­vent 2–3 degrees of addi­tion­al glob­al arm­ing that will lead to irre­versible cli­mat­ic changes with dra­mat­ic con­se­quences for our plan­et.

How­ev­er, in a world dri­ven by prof­it and com­mit­ted to unlim­it­ed eco­nom­ic growth, human­i­ty seems very unwill­ing to change the course of the fos­sil fuel econ­o­my.

In the sum­mer of 2006, the 5th hottest year ever record­ed in recent his­to­ry, 600 peo­ple con­vinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Cli­mate Action in the shad­ow of one of the biggest C02 emit­ters in Europe: Drax coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in York­shire / UK.

With over one hun­dred work­shops on a wide range of top­ics, the 10 day camp was a space of col­lec­tive learn­ing, sus­tain­able liv­ing and tak­ing direct action on the root caus­es of cli­mate change. The gath­er­ing that showed prac­ti­cal low ener­gy solu­tions in action, cul­mi­nat­ed in a day of protest and mass direct action in an attempt to shut down Drax.

DVD 62min + extras
Eng­lish with sub­ti­tles in Eng­lish, French, Ger­man and Span­ish
reports on indy­media UK: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/climatecamp/

Trail­er down­load: 2:58 min
http://www.cinerebelde.org/site.php3?id_article=356〈=en

a cine rebelde pro­duc­tion in coop­er­a­tion with http://risingtide.org.uk and http://climatecamp.org.uk

indy­media reports of the Camp 2006:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/climatecamp/

Pic­tures, infor­ma­tion and film orders:
orders@cinerebelde.org
http://www.cinerebelde.org

DVDs will also soon be avail­able from ris­ing tide, cli­mate camp groups and at the meet­ing in Bris­tol.

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Prepa­ra­tions for the Camp for Cli­mate Action 2007 are in full swing. The upcom­ing meet­ing will be in Bris­tol on March 17th /18th.

Ris­ing Tide North Amer­i­ca is cur­rent­ly doing a Road Show. Check out:
http://risingtidenorthamerica.org

The Campaign Against Prison Slavery

The Cam­paign Against Prison Slav­ery is a group set up to try to expose the real­i­ty of prison labour, how lit­tle of it teach­es skills that can be used after release and which could help reduce the chances of re-offend­ing.

The Cam­paign Against Prison Slav­ery is a group set up to try to expose the real­i­ty of prison labour, how lit­tle of it teach­es skills that can be used after release and which could help reduce the chances of re-offend­ing.

We also seek to expose the pri­vate com­pa­nies that have con­tracts with pris­ons that are mak­ing huge prof­its using pris­on­er labour while the pris­on­ers are paid pen­nies an hour, any los­es incurred by the prison indus­tries con­tracts are cov­ered by the tax pay­er.

CAPS now has a new web­site www.againstprisonslavery.org and the con­tact details are:

Cam­paign Against Prison Slav­ery
P.O. Box 74
Brighton
BN1 4ZQ
E‑mail: againstprisonslavery@riseup.net

Activists shut down construction of LNG gas terminal in Milford Haven

14th Feb 07

Pro­test­ers against the con­tin­ued and unre­strained pro­mo­tion of fos­sil fuel projects by the UK gov­ern­ment have block­ad­ed the main vehi­cle access route into the new LNG pipeline ter­mi­nal near Mil­ford Haven, South Wales. Their aim is to high­light the seri­ous envi­ron­men­tal and safe­ty issues sur­round­ing this project, and to call for a more sober approach to the impend­ing ener­gy cri­sis.

Construction traffic prevented from entering LNG terminal14th Feb 07

Pro­test­ers against the con­tin­ued and unre­strained pro­mo­tion of fos­sil fuel projects by the UK gov­ern­ment have block­ad­ed the main vehi­cle access route into the new LNG pipeline ter­mi­nal near Mil­ford Haven, South Wales. Their aim is to high­light the seri­ous envi­ron­men­tal and safe­ty issues sur­round­ing this project, and to call for a more sober approach to the impend­ing ener­gy cri­sis.

Eight peo­ple have phys­i­cal­ly blocked the site access road, south of the vil­lage of Her­branston, S. Wales, pre­vent­ing con­struc­tion vehi­cles from enter­ing the giant LNG ter­mi­nal.

These pro­tes­tors, inspired by the 2006 Camp for Cli­mate Action, are tar­get­ting the con­struc­tion of the Liq­uid Nat­ur­al Gas (LNG) ter­mi­nal and pipeline in South Wales. The actions aim to dis­rupt the work to the largest extent pos­si­ble. Cli­mate chaos is the great­est threat human­i­ty has ever faced yet the British gov­ern­ment and a con­glom­er­ate of Cor­po­ra­tions are reck­less­ly con­struct­ing this new car­bon inten­sive ener­gy project.

The devel­op­ment of LNG ter­mi­nals in the UK is lock­ing us into thir­ty years of yet more fos­sil fuels, in an era in which dra­mat­ic cuts in car­bon are cru­cial. The Depart­ment of Trade Indus­try last week, gave per­mis­sion for phase two of the LNG pipeline to be built. Yet, this project stark­ly reveals the incom­pat­i­bil­i­ty between the so-called need for ‘ener­gy secu­ri­ty’, and the far more press­ing need to sub­stan­tial­ly dimin­ish our use of fos­sil fuels.

Lim­it­ing glob­al warm­ing to a 2 degree increase with a rel­a­tive­ly high cer­tain­ty requires the equiv­a­lent con­cen­tra­tion of CO2 to stay below 400 ppm. Achiev­ing this means rich coun­tries, like the UK, cut­ting their aver­age emis­sions by around 90% by 2030.

A pro­tes­tor said “A 90% cut in 25 years is going to require not just new tech­nolo­gies, but dif­fer­ent cul­tures, dif­fer­ent economies, dif­fer­ent expec­ta­tions — in short, a dif­fer­ent way of life.”

The devel­op­ment of LNG ter­mi­nals in the UK opens up pre­vi­ous­ly unavail­able car­bon inten­sive nat­ur­al gas to our ener­gy mar­kets, to the severe detri­ment of sup­port for clean decen­tralised renew­ables. Fur­ther­more, bring­ing gas from the Mid­dle East is a much more ener­gy inten­sive process than retriev­ing gas from the North Sea.

There are also sub­stan­tial safe­ty issues attached to this project. Stud­ies show that an acci­dent or ter­ror­ist attack at the Mil­ford Haven ter­mi­nals would cause “major injuries and sig­nif­i­cant dam­age to struc­tures” with­in a radius of a third of a mile and could cause sec­ond-degree burns more than a mile away.

The ter­rain through which the pipeline will run has been exten­sive­ly mined and is prone to sub­si­dence in places. Need­less to say, the instal­la­tion of a mas­sive­ly pres­surised gas pipeline through unsta­ble land is high­ly dubi­ous. Locals, fear­ing for their safe­ty, have had their ques­tions ignored. Con­cerns about the mate­r­i­al used and qual­i­ty of weld­ing employed have not been prop­er­ly addressed. Many mem­bers of affect­ed com­mu­ni­ties con­tin­ue to vocal­ly protest, but with lit­tle recog­ni­tion.

Pro­tes­tors have cho­sen to take direct action today to show their sol­i­dar­i­ty with com­mu­ni­ties along the pipeline and to stop this moral­ly inde­fen­si­ble fos­sil fuel de-struc­tion project.

Con­tact: Sarah White 07901862522

Notes to Edi­tor

The project:
Gas, liq­ue­fied in Qatar by cool­ing to ‑162C, is going to be shipped to West Wales on super tankers. There, at Mil­ford Haven, it will be regasi­fied in one of the two onshore ter­mi­nals being built by:
· Drag­on LNG, a con­sor­tium whose main part­ner is the BG Group (for­mer­ly British Gas).
· South Hook LNG, part of a new busi­ness, Qatar­gas II,owned by Qatar Petro­le­um and Exxon. This £6 bil­lion project finances the work from well to ter­mi­nal. It is the sin­gle largest ener­gy-project financ­ing ever[1] and this ter­mi­nal alone will be the biggest LNG receiv­ing ter­mi­nal in the world[2].
The Pipeline: Nation­al Grid are con­nect­ing the gas to the nation­al net­work. They are doing so by build­ing a pipeline in two phas­es from Mil­ford Haven to Glouces­ter­shire. Phase 2 of the project was giv­en the green light on 7th Feb­ru­ary 2007. This huge pipeline, 4ft in diam­e­ter, will run at 94bar pres­sure – that is 96kg/cm2.
Nation­al Grid’s (for­mer­ly known as Transco) Safe­ty Record
In 1999, a fam­i­ly of four were killed in Scot­land when a high pres­sure gas pipe explod­ed by their home. Mas­sive cor­ro­sion in the pipeline, and a fail­ure on the part of Nation­al Grid/Transco (NG/T) to keep ade­quate records on what kind of pipes were being used, led to the explo­sion. Cor­ro­sion has already been seen on the welds in the South Wales pipeline
Since pri­vati­sa­tion, NG/T have shed thou­sands of engi­neer­ing jobs and cut main­te­nance work. In 2000 it was revealed that Transco had under­spent its agreed pipeline main­te­nance and replace­ment pro­gramme by £358m over the pre­vi­ous two years[3]. This same cor­po­ra­tion, account­able to only its share­hold­ers and board, is now respon­si­ble for the safe­ty of thou­sands of peo­ple along the route of this pipe, which is run at a pres­sure, unprece­dent­ed in Europe and US, of which Nation­al Grid have no expe­ri­ence of run­ning. Already, there is evi­dence of their cost sav­ing strat­e­gy: the Health and Safe­ty Exec­u­tive stip­u­lates the use of poly­ethe­lene in gas pip­ing, yet Nation­al Grid is using oth­er mate­ri­als.

[1] The agree­ment was the third-largest project financ­ing of any kind, after the Chan­nel Tun­nel and a Tai­wanese high-speed rail financ­ing. Banks with major roles in the project financ­ing include HSBC, Bar­clays, Roy­al Bank of Scot­land and Cit­i­group.
[2] http://education.independent.co.uk/careers_advice/engineering/article1946244.ece
[3] http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=662322003

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ACTION REPORT

Since Novem­ber there has been lots of protests around the gas pipeline cur­rent­ly being con­struct­ed in Wales, and short­ly Englans. Today peo­ple paid a vis­it to sun­ny pem­bokeshire to take direct action on one of the root caus­es of cli­mate change; fos­sil fuel cor­po­ra­tions seek­ing more prof­its for their share­hold­ers.

Five peo­ple block­ad­ed the main access to the con­struc­tion site for six hours, result­ing in huge tail­backs and the typ­i­cal enor­mous police pres­ence. Peo­ple laid on the ground are appar­ent­ly a threat to nation­al secu­ri­ty. What real­ly is a threat to our secu­ri­ty is the con­tin­u­a­tion of yet more fos­sil fuel projects, more car­bon in the atmos­phere and more death, mis­ery and hunger. The peo­ple were even­tu­al­ly arrest­ed at mid­day and are now enjoy­ing a well deserved sleep in the lux­u­ri­ous sur­round­ings of Haver­ford­West Police sta­tion.

Around the same time this morn­ing peo­ple also approached the kilo­me­ter long jet­ty, which will car­ry the liq­uid from the super­tankers to the ter­mi­nal. They were pre­vent­ed from get­ting on to the jet­ty; appar­ent­ly it’s dan­ger­ous unless you have been giv­en health and safe­ty train­ing. Lets hope the peo­ple of Mil­ford Haven have been giv­en some train­ing for what to do if there is acci­dent. Mil­ford Haven’s most expe­ri­enced ship­ping pilots have described the risk of a fatal col­li­sion at one of the ter­mi­nals as a ‘real every­day real­i­ty’ which would put 20000 peo­ple lives at risk.

Just twen­ty peo­ple have man­aged to cause a splen­did com­mo­tion at the build­ing site of the South Hook Liq­uid Nat­ur­al Gas (LNG) ter­mi­nal in West Wales. It is an inspir­ing exam­ple of how a few peo­ple can take respon­si­bil­i­ty for theirs and our future.

While work may con­tin­ue tomor­row on the ter­mi­nal, yet anoth­er span­ner has been thrown in their LNG pipedream (I had to have one pipe pun).

See
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/362275.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/362322.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6360281.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6365223.stm
http://www.pembrokeshiretv.com/content/templates/v6-article.asp?articleid=3163&zoneid=33

Back­ground
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25798

Brecon Resistance Camp — Wish List

6th Feb

The tree camp in the Bre­con Bea­cons is still going strong. The mood is good and every­one is hap­py ( well all except Nation­al Grid that is !!! ).

Even with the promise of six inch­es of snow Wednes­day night spir­its are rid­ing high in Bre­con. The camp have request­ed that I send out a wish list and hope­ful­ly we can all arrange to do a lit­tle some­thing to help out.

6th Feb

The tree camp in the Bre­con Bea­cons is still going strong. The mood is good and every­one is hap­py ( well all except Nation­al Grid that is !!! ).

Even with the promise of six inch­es of snow Wednes­day night spir­its are rid­ing high in Bre­con. The camp have request­ed that I send out a wish list and hope­ful­ly we can all arrange to do a lit­tle some­thing to help out.

CLIMBING ROPES
CARGO NETS
BUILDING TIMBER
SCRAP METAL
CANDLES
AA & AAA BATTERIES
TARPS
POLYPROP
FIREWOOD / KINDLING / OLD NEWSPAPERS
FOOD ( VEGGIE / VEGAN MAINLY )
BEDDING
GINGER WINE!

Next national climate camp organsing gathering Feb 17/18 in Leeds

The next nation­al organs­ing gath­er­ing will be in Leeds on Sat and Sun Feb 17th/18th. It will be at The Com­mon Place in Leeds city cen­tre and veg­an food, accom­mo­da­tio­nand creche will be pro­vid­ed (please con­tact us with accom­mo­da­tion, creche or any oth­er needs though so we can plan ahead).

Climate camp logo 2 The next nation­al organs­ing gath­er­ing will be in Leeds on Sat and Sun Feb 17th/18th. It will be at The Com­mon Place in Leeds city cen­tre and veg­an food, accom­mo­da­tio­nand creche will be pro­vid­ed (please con­tact us with accom­mo­da­tion, creche or any oth­er needs though so we can plan ahead).

Cli­mate campers are at it again! More than sev­en­ty peo­ple from around the UK met in Leeds in Jan­u­ary and decid­ed to organ­ise anoth­er Camp for Cli­mate Action this sum­mer from 14th to 21st August. As many of you know, for ten days last August hun­dreds of peo­ple gath­ered in the shad­ow of Drax coal-fired pow­er sta­tion in York­shire to share knowl­edge and inspi­ra­tion to tack­le the great­est threat to life on Earth, live an exam­ple of more just and sus­tain­able alter­na­tives, and con­front one of the UK’s biggest pol­luters in a day of mass direct action.

Fol­low­ing on from this suc­cess, Camp for Cli­mate Action 2007 will take place near to a tar­get relat­ing to avi­a­tion or the coal or oil indus­tries. The loca­tion will be cho­sen over the com­ing months. Organ­is­ing out­reach,
fundrais­ing, site prac­ti­cal­i­ties and work­shops is under­way. Self man­aged camp­ing, eat­ing and liv­ing neigh­bour­hoods around themes and geo­graph­i­cal areas are also being planned, con­tact details are on the web­site.

There is loads to do, and every­one is invit­ed to get involved — no expe­ri­ence nec­es­sary! The next nation­al plan­ning meet­ings will be held in Leeds at the Com­mon Place, on the 17th and 18th Feb­ru­ary, and then in
Bris­tol on the 17th and 18th March.

See www.climatecamp.org.uk for more info. There are lots of ways to get involved with­out com­ing to nation­al gath­er­ings, but com­ing to them is a great way of real­ly feel­ing part of the whole process, we work with con­sen­sus deci­sion mak­ing and col­lec­tive respon­si­bil­i­ty, every­one gets their say in how the whole thing goes.

For a 20min film of last years camp get
V For Video Activist — SchMOVIES DVD Col­lec­tion 2006 OUT Jan­u­ary 2007
— £6 (includ­ing P&P). Con­tact the SchNEWS Office 01273 685913 or  schnews@brighton.co.uk

leeds@climatecamp.org.uk
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk

The Trebanos Five — “Ramblers” arrested on route of National Grids Pipeline

This morn­ing ( Wed 31-01-2007 ) five peo­ple were arrest­ed on the pub­lic foot­path run­ning through the con­struc­tion site in Tre­banos, South Wales.

The Tre­banos Five.…. Whose quick deci­sion mak­ing left a bit to be desired were arrest­ed today for “learn­ing Ital­ian, hav­ing a pic­nic and read­ing” on an ille­galy closed pub­lic foot­path in Tre­banos.….. Hav­ing being giv­en 5 min­utes to move on, they were hand­cuffed and man­han­dled whilst decid­ing what to do next( three min­utes lat­er.…) They are now known as The Tre­banos Faffing Five !!!

This morn­ing ( Wed 31-01-2007 ) five peo­ple were arrest­ed on the pub­lic foot­path run­ning through the con­struc­tion site in Tre­banos, South Wales.

The Tre­banos Five.…. Whose quick deci­sion mak­ing left a bit to be desired were arrest­ed today for “learn­ing Ital­ian, hav­ing a pic­nic and read­ing” on an ille­galy closed pub­lic foot­path in Tre­banos.….. Hav­ing being giv­en 5 min­utes to move on, they were hand­cuffed and man­han­dled whilst decid­ing what to do next( three min­utes lat­er.…) They are now known as The Tre­banos Faffing Five !!!

The foot­path was sub­ject to an “undat­ed” clo­sure notice on Thurs­day 25th Jan­u­ary 2007. The notice gave 7 days notice. Today’s arrests on the foot­path were with­in the 7 day peri­od and those arrest­ed are seek­ing legal advice with regards their wrong­ful arrest.

Neath Port Tal­bot CBC who closed the foot­path are soon to be sub­ject to a Judi­cial Revue for the way they han­dled the plan­ning process. Nation­al Grid are now threat­en­ing local peo­ple in South Wales that they will sue them should their work be delayed any longer.…

Nation­al Grids Secu­ri­ty Guards, sor­ry I mean The South Wales Police Force, seemed very pleased with them­sleves and were filmed and pho­tographed by a local res­i­dent con­cerned for the safe­ty of those arrest­ed.
Up to 40 police offi­cers were on hand to arrest the five young peo­ple.

Nation­al Grids 48″ dia, high pres­sure pipeline has caused a storm of con­tro­vesy. The envi­ro­men­tal issues, safe­ty issues, the lack of democ­ra­cy and the abuse of human rights have drawn sup­port for the pro­tes­tors from all of the UK, The Bahamas, Cal­i­for­nia and Ross­port.

The Tre­banos Five were arrest­ed with­in a few feet of the site where Nation­al Grid are attempt­ing to dig a 30 mtrs deep ver­ti­cal shaft through which will trav­el the 48″ pipe. The pipe goes through much of the South Wales Coal­field and also through the Bre­con Bea­cons Nation­al Park.

Nation­al Grid claim this pipeline is essen­tial for our future ener­gy needs. That has been dis­proved using their own data. This pipeline is not need­ed, it is not want­ed and it is a dan­ger­ous project which will only add to our car­bon foot­print. The con­tin­ued use of fos­sil fuels, which is clear­ly sup­port­ed by our gov­ern­ment and police force, can only end in dis­as­ter. We may not see all of the effects today, but our chil­dren and their chil­dren will have to live with the results of our bla­tant dis­re­gard of the Earth.

3 protesters arrested at supermaket blockade (for Welsh language)

Mor­risons super­mar­ket was block­ad­ed by pro­test­ers and three mem­bers of the Welsh Lan­guage Soci­ety were arrest­ed today (Sat­ur­day 27 Jan­u­ary) as part of the con­tin­u­ing cam­paign for a law ensur­ing rights to use Welsh

Welsh supermarket blockadeMor­risons super­mar­ket was block­ad­ed by pro­test­ers and three mem­bers of the Welsh Lan­guage Soci­ety were arrest­ed today (Sat­ur­day 27 Jan­u­ary) as part of the con­tin­u­ing cam­paign for a law ensur­ing rights to use Welsh
Fol­low­ing a pub­lic meet­ing held in the High Street of Ban­gor, north Wales, attend­ed by about 250 peo­ple a small­er group held a sit-down protest in the entrance to Mor­risons super­mar­ket. Despite pre­vi­ous protests and meet­ings between cam­paign­ers and the company’s head office in Eng­land, Mor­risons have failed to pro­vide a full bi-lin­gual ser­vice.

As eighty or so pro­test­ers sat down block­ing the entrance a num­ber of oth­er Welsh Lan­guage Soci­ety mem­bers plas­tered posters on the doors announc­ing that the store was tem­porar­i­ly shut. Gwen­no Teifi, Sti­wart Edwards and Bethan Willams were lat­er arrest­ed for sus­pect­ed crim­i­nal dam­age. were lat­er arrest­ed for sus­pect­ed crim­i­nal dam­age.

Estab­lished in 1962 The Welsh Lan­guage Soci­ety (Cymdei­thas yr Iaith Gym­raeg) has been suc­cess­ful in win­ning a TV chan­nel, edu­ca­tion reforms and two changes in leg­is­la­tion pro­vid­ing lim­it­ed rights ensur­ing gov­ern­ment, local coun­cils and offi­cial bod­ies make use of Welsh. How­ev­er the Soci­ety con­stant­ly draw atten­tion to exam­ples such as Mor­risons as typ­i­cal of the pri­vate sector’s fail­ure to pro­vide bi-lin­gual ser­vices.

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