Local Residents Close Climate Criminal’s Yard

26.3.07 — Today, a group of local res­i­dents, inspired by last year’s Camp for Cli­mate Action at Drax pow­er sta­tion, but dis­mayed at plans to increase con­ges­tion and pol­lu­tion on the M1, have vis­it­ed Jack­son’s yard in Sut­ton in Ash­field, near Mans­field. The cit­i­zens locked the gates shut and hung a vari­ety of ban­ners giv­ing the clear mes­sage that Jack­son’s con­tri­bu­tion to a wors­en­ing envi­ron­ment was not wel­come.

A Slack Morning For Jacksons26.3.07 — Today, a group of local res­i­dents, inspired by last year’s Camp for Cli­mate Action at Drax pow­er sta­tion, but dis­mayed at plans to increase con­ges­tion and pol­lu­tion on the M1, have vis­it­ed Jack­son’s yard in Sut­ton in Ash­field, near Mans­field. The cit­i­zens locked the gates shut and hung a vari­ety of ban­ners giv­ing the clear mes­sage that Jack­son’s con­tri­bu­tion to a wors­en­ing envi­ron­ment was not wel­come.

Jack­sons are heav­i­ly impli­cat­ed in the ridicu­lous plans to increase con­ges­tion and pol­lu­tion on the M1 by widen­ing it into four lanes in each direc­tion — their main focus is the area around junc­tions 31 and 32. Until recent­ly, the yard, on Cox­moor Road, also housed a dodgy Scan­di­na­vian out­fit called Skan­s­ka. These clowns are even deep­er in the mire; in ass­co­ci­a­tion with Bal­for Beat­ie they are engaged in work from the M25 to Luton.

Giv­en that Blair’s gov­ern­ment is thor­ough­ly in the pock­et of big busi­ness, it should be no surpise to any­one that recent­ly, when Roads Min­is­ter Stephen Lady­man was churn­ing out the same old lies about road widen­ing for the Not­ting­ham Evening Post, he repeat­ed almost word for word parts of the Skan­s­ka web­site’s M1 page!

Clear­ly, the sen­si­ble response to traf­fic con­ges­tion would involve invest­ment in pub­lic trans­port and increased use of the rail­ways for frieght. How­ev­er, since these solu­tions are unlike­ly to make much prof­it for Blair’s friends in big busi­ness, we are all left chok­ing on the fumes gen­er­at­ed by a mas­sive­ly expen­sive white ele­phant. The Gov­ern­ment is
giv­ing your mon­ey to cli­mate crim­i­nals and prof­it ter­ror­ists, whilst claim­ing to take cli­mate change seri­ous­ly — the time has come for sane and mod­er­ate peo­ple every­where to take a stand against this mad­ness.

Maybe the Police are start­ing to get the idea too — they turned up, but then went away again, alleged­ly due to a staff short­age.

To get involved in the next Cli­mate Camp, vis­it www.climatecamp.org.uk