New camp set up on route of National Grid’s monster gas pipeline in Wales

9.01.2007

Yes­ter­day (Mon­day 8th) a small camp was set-up across a pub­lic foot­path (in tre­banos, wales) when con­struc­tion work­ers tried to resume work on the gas pipe line. Peo­ple are also occu­py­ing the pipe, and all work has been stopped. The camp can­not be removed as it has been set-up on a pub­lic foot­path. We need peo­ple URGENTLY, to sup­port the small camp, do direct actions on oth­er con­sturction work, occu­py pipes, and to be part of future plans to fight the pipe across wales.

9.01.2007

Yes­ter­day (Mon­day 8th) a small camp was set-up across a pub­lic foot­path (in tre­banos, wales) when con­struc­tion work­ers tried to resume work on the gas pipe line. Peo­ple are also occu­py­ing the pipe, and all work has been stopped. The camp can­not be removed as it has been set-up on a pub­lic foot­path. We need peo­ple URGENTLY, to sup­port the small camp, do direct actions on oth­er con­sturction work, occu­py pipes, and to be part of future plans to fight the pipe across wales.

call 07743495582 and find out how you can get involved.
local group web­site with infor­ma­tion on the pipe: www.safehavenforum.co.uk

PRESS RELEASE — 8TH JANUARY 2007

NO EMBARGO
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A coali­tion of local peo­ple and cli­mate action groups, includ­ing Safe­haven and Ris­ing Tide have returned to the route of Nation­al Grid’s mon­ster gas pipeline. They have set up camp on pub­lic foot­paths lead­ing into the con­struc­tion site off Glyn Meirch road, Tre­banos, and are block­ing vehi­cles from gain­ing access. They are back to halt work to stop the destruc­tion of coun­try­side, com­mu­ni­ties and cli­mate.

Mil­ford Haven is today under armed guard due to the threat of ter­ror­ism. Yet this pipeline will com­mit us to anoth­er thir­ty years of fuelling a cause of ter­ror­ism: West­ern cor­po­ra­tions tak­ing coun­tries gas to expand con­sump­tion and their prof­its.

This pipeline will also con­tribute to anoth­er form of ter­ror­ism: cli­mate change. The effects of cli­mate chance on peo­ple are going to be cat­a­stroph­ic yet the gov­ern­ment is con­tin­u­ing to live in the “Carbon Dinosaurâ€? era by refus­ing to move on from fos­sil fuels.

The Stern Report said that we need to reduce green­house gas emis­sions dras­ti­cal­ly and soon or face run­away cli­mate change. A spokesper­son for Bris­tol Ris­ing Tide said “Building the pipe is a step in exact­ly the wrong direc­tion. The £700 mil­lion it will cost could be spent on renew­ables and ener­gy effi­cien­cy. We will take sus­tained direct action to stop it, tak­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty for our lives and our future. â€?

Here in South Wales, Nation­al Quid have been bull­doz­ing their way through com­mu­ni­ties and land­scapes, show­ing con­tempt for both. Safe­ty issues have been ignored and con­sul­ta­tion has been a farce.

As a result of the pre­vi­ous protest, a vic­to­ry was won and the Nation­al Grid were forced to stop blast­ing. How­ev­er locals are still very con­cerned about the risk of an avalanche, sim­i­lar to those of Aber­fan and Pan­teg, as the pipe is being built on old mine work­ings.

Fur­ther­more, the Health and Safe­ty Exec­u­tive have said it is guar­an­teed that a hole will appear with­in the next thir­ty years in the pipeline.

It has been proven that this pipeline is not required for UK gas needs by DrRichard Fur­ness, an inter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised gas pipeline expert.

We are here to revent the wan­ton destruc­tion of our coun­try­side and our basic human rights, as well as to safe­guard those of future gen­er­a­tions. We are demand­ing that this pipeline project is scrapped.

For fur­ther details

Rachel Evans 07790450747
Site Phone 07733 190958