Mainshill Coal Site sabotaged!

12.04.2010
In the ear­ly hours of this morn­ing machin­ery at Main­shill open cast site was sab­o­taged. Two Cater­pil­lar D9T’s and a 170 tonne face scrap­ping earth mover, an O&K RH90, were tar­get­ed, both will be inop­er­a­ble today, and will cost Scot­tish Coal great­ly.

12.04.2010
In the ear­ly hours of this morn­ing machin­ery at Main­shill open cast site was sab­o­taged. Two Cater­pil­lar D9T’s and a 170 tonne face scrap­ping earth mover, an O&K RH90, were tar­get­ed, both will be inop­er­a­ble today, and will cost Scot­tish Coal great­ly.

A sus­tained cam­paign of sab­o­tage has been waged at Main­shill and it was vowed to con­tin­ue even when work on the mine start­ed. The only thing that has changed since the evic­tion of the Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp is that the machines on the site are big­ger and more expen­sive. The machin­ery at the Main­shill site, and any oth­er coal site in Scot­land, are extreme­ly vul­ner­a­ble. Sab­o­tage against the coal indus­try will con­tin­ue until its expan­sion is halt­ed.

This action was done by autonomous envi­ron­men­tal­ists in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple of South Lanark­shire who are fight­ing to save their com­mu­ni­ty and their health from the coal indus­try. This is also in sol­i­dar­i­ty with peo­ple around the world, includ­ing Colum­bia and India, who are fight­ing for their lives against the coal indus­try.

Main­shill vive — la lucha sigue!