Hatfield Moor peat mining halted

Ten peo­ple from Not­ting­ham vis­it­ed Hat­field Moor as their part of the days of action against peat min­ing.

Despite a large amount of pre-pub­lic­i­ty there was no police pres­ence when we arrived and we entered the moor with no has­sle.

See­ing dust in the dis­tance we head­ed towards where they were work­ing, and they tried to dri­ve off. We tried to head them off and despite their half a mile head start we still man­aged to trap the machines and pre­vent­ed them from work­ing for the rest of the day.

After about an hour and a half, two police offi­cers and the site man­ag­er turned up to say that so long as we did­n’t dam­age any­thing they would­n’t arrest us.

Use­ful­ly one of us man­aged to over­hear a con­ver­sa­tion between the boss and the police about how dis­rupt­ing the fac­to­ry works would cause them mas­sive prob­lems.

So what are you wait­ing for?