Mainshill Solidarity Camp needs you! Clear-felling and drilling ongoing

Want to sup­port a com­mu­ni­ty in it’s fight against cor­rupt coun­cils and coal min­ing com­pa­nies? Want to pro­tect part of Scotland’s beau­ti­ful land­scape and endan­gered wildlife? Want to take land and pow­er away from a wealthy aris­to­crat and live com­mu­nal­ly on lib­er­at­ed land?

Mainshill logging and machineryWant to sup­port a com­mu­ni­ty in it’s fight against cor­rupt coun­cils and coal min­ing com­pa­nies? Want to pro­tect part of Scotland’s beau­ti­ful land­scape and endan­gered wildlife? Want to take land and pow­er away from a wealthy aris­to­crat and live com­mu­nal­ly on lib­er­at­ed land? Want to do some­thing about the vast expan­sion of open­cast coal min­ing and its con­tri­bu­tion to cli­mate chaos? Then get yer­self down to Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp!

Over the past cou­ple of weeks work has resumed at Main­shill Wood with large areas of plan­ta­tion for­est being felled and bore­hole drilling ongo­ing, in prepa­ra­tion for the open­cast mine. Scot­tish Coal, with the pro­tec­tion of Strath­clyde Police, have moved in anoth­er team of drillers, J B Site Inves­ti­ga­tions, and ‘for­est man­agers’ Scot­tish Wood­lands to car­ry out this work.

Last week drilling work was stopped when a camp res­i­dent scaled a drilling rig and held off attempts by police climbers to remove her for 6 hours. Oth­er actions to stop work and pre­vent felling have been ongo­ing.

But the Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp needs sup­port – stop­ping this prepara­to­ry work and impor­tant­ly the felling of more plan­ta­tion for­est is essen­tial to win­ning this cam­paign. Even if just for a day, come along to the Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp and help us put a stop to Scot­tish Coal and Lord Home’s plans to rip up the Dou­glas Val­ley and poi­son local com­mu­ni­ties.

Go to http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/?page_id=415#How%20to%20Get%20There for direc­tions to the camp.

mainshill@riseup.net
http://mainshill.noflag.org.uk/