More Sabotage at Mainshill: Drilling and Harvesting Equipment Targeted

Two reports of sab­o­tage at Main­shill Wood have been post­ed on Indy­media – one involv­ing the drilling rig on site and anoth­er involv­ing har­vest­ing equip­ment which has been relent­less­ly tar­get­ed over the past month, both with sab­o­tage and ear­ly morn­ing actions. Things are heat­ing up at Main­shill as the defi­ance of the com­mu­ni­ty takes on Scot­tish Coal’s deter­mi­na­tion to prof­it at any cost.

Two reports of sab­o­tage at Main­shill Wood have been post­ed on Indy­media – one involv­ing the drilling rig on site and anoth­er involv­ing har­vest­ing equip­ment which has been relent­less­ly tar­get­ed over the past month, both with sab­o­tage and ear­ly morn­ing actions. Things are heat­ing up at Main­shill as the defi­ance of the com­mu­ni­ty takes on Scot­tish Coal’s deter­mi­na­tion to prof­it at any cost. It’s crunch time for new coal in South Lanark­shire.

From Indy­media Scot­land:

An anony­mous com­mu­nique was received after two machines used for drilling and test­ing for coal on site were sab­o­taged in the ear­ly hours of Tues­day morn­ing… The com­mu­nique reads:

“On the morn­ing of Tues­day the 20th of Octo­ber two heavy vehi­cles had their Fuel lines, wiers, gears and fuel tanks destroyed. Their win­dows and bodys where also sprey­paint­ed.

The vehi­cles dam­aged have been work­ing to pre­pare the Main­shill Wood area for coal extrac­tion. If it is open cast­ed then it will join sev­er­al oth­er mines in the Dou­glas Val­ley, two of which are cur­rent­ly expand­ing.

Scot­tish Coal, the land own­er Lord Home and the gov­ern­ment and more than pre­pared to sac­ri­fice the health of local com­mu­ni­ties and envi­ron­ment, as well as con­tribute to cli­mate change and near­ly uni­ver­sal envi­ron­men­tal degra­da­tion for wages, bonus­es, tar­gets and prof­its.

This action was tak­en by a group of autonomous peo­ple in sol­i­dar­i­ty with all those who oppose the devel­op­ment of Main­shill Wood into an open cast coal mine.”

Anoth­er anony­mous com­mu­nique has been received,

“On the morn­ing of Tues­day the 20th of Octo­ber three tree felling vehi­cles had wiers cut, lights and oth­er fix­tures bro­ken. Their win­dows where also sprey­paint­ed and a free stand­ing flood light was tipped and smashed.

The vehi­cles dam­aged have been work­ing to pre­pare the Main­shill Wood area for coal extrac­tion. If it is open cast­ed then it will join sev­er­al oth­er mines in the Dou­glas Val­ley, two of which are cur­rent­ly expand­ing.

Scot­tish Coal, the land own­er Lord Home and the gov­ern­ment and more than pre­pared to sac­ri­fice the health of local com­mu­ni­ties and envi­ron­ment, as well as con­tribute to cli­mate change and near­ly uni­ver­sal envi­ron­men­tal degra­da­tion for wages, bonus­es, tar­gets and prof­its.

This action was tak­en by a group of autonomous peo­ple in sol­i­dar­i­ty with all those who oppose the devel­op­ment of Main­shill Wood into an open cast coal mine.”

For more infor­ma­tion about the cam­paign see http://mainshill.noflag.org.uk/