Growing Resistance – trip to Cousland — Saturday 21st August 2010

Grow­ing Resis­tance is an event organ­ised by Coal Action Scot­land, in sol­i­dar­i­ty with Com­mu­ni­ties Against Air­field Open Cast, tak­ing place dur­ing the Camp For Cli­mate Action, which this year is in Edin­burgh.

Grow­ing Resis­tance is an event organ­ised by Coal Action Scot­land, in sol­i­dar­i­ty with Com­mu­ni­ties Against Air­field Open Cast, tak­ing place dur­ing the Camp For Cli­mate Action, which this year is in Edin­burgh.

For two years the com­mu­ni­ty sur­round­ing Air­field Farm have been object­ing to Scot­tish Coals plans to open cast the area in order to remove two mil­lion tons of coal. In an inde­pen­dent sur­vey 95% of local res­i­dents object to the planned mine. Despite this, Scot­tish Coal is push­ing ahead with the plans, and the very real fear is that Mid­loth­i­an Coun­cil will give them the go ahead. To show the local peo­ple that they are not alone in this strug­gle we are ask­ing peo­ple to join us on Sat­ur­day the 21st on the threat­ened land.

We will have infor­ma­tion from Coal Action Scot­land and the Coal Action Net­work, speak­ers from the local com­mu­ni­ty and oth­er com­mu­ni­ties in Scot­land plagued by the coal indus­try and a tour of the land under threat. There will be a bike car­a­van set­ting of from Cli­mate Camp, via Edin­burgh, arriv­ing about 3pm, and minibus shut­tles from Cli­mate Camp and the near­by town of Dalki­eth. For trav­el direc­tions see here.

If you want up to date infor­ma­tion about trav­el or get lost call our Trans­port Line num­ber: 07984706188 (only avail­able from Sat­ur­day morn­ing onwards)

If you have any ques­tions please email us at coalac­tion­scot­land [at] riseup.net

If you can’t make the event but still want to help the Cous­land com­mu­ni­ty then please send an objec­tion let­ter.