FIT at menwith hill

Food, music, fun and FIT, Men­with Hill, 4th July Inde­pen­dence from Amer­i­ca Day

Anoth­er well attend­ed demo at Men­with, with blaz­ing sun, music, food and increased lev­els of sur­veil­lance.

Food, music, fun and FIT, Men­with Hill, 4th July Inde­pen­dence from Amer­i­ca Day

Anoth­er well attend­ed demo at Men­with, with blaz­ing sun, music, food and increased lev­els of sur­veil­lance.

There were maybe 100 or so attend­ing, along with stu­pid num­bers of police, includ­ing for the first time, mem­bers of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan FIT team. They were very cam­era shy, and only appeared briefly to pho­to­graph par­tic­i­pants as they set off for a tour of the base. I guess that they left the bulk of the ‘evi­dence gath­er­ing’ to North Yorks offi­cers, who were very busy through­out the day.

There was music on the day from seize the day, who played some crack­ing tunes. Bet­ter was the anar­chist punk band at the end who blast­ed the occu­pants of the base with a selec­tion of hard­core tunes as the sun set behind them, all cap­tured on film by the police!

Also for the first time was a vis­i­ble Anar­chist pres­ence on the day, with a red and black flag fly­ing in the Sun next to CAAB’s upside down Stars and stripes.

After a brief tour of the base the march head­ed back to the main gate where Lunch out Lils from Sheffield pro­vid­ed some excel­lent and much need­ed food!

One arrest on the day, Lindis Per­cy who was arrest­ed for breach of bail con­di­tions, i sus­pect for cross­ing the ‘yel­low line’ at one of the gates. i observed the Evi­dence gath­ers in con­ver­sa­tion with senior offi­cers at this point in the day, check­ing that they had evi­dence of Lindi’s trans­gres­sion on film…

All in all anoth­er well attend­ed demo — bet­ter that it was held in the evening i think a there did some to be plen­ty of new faces there.

As an aside i also noticed that a new wind farm is in the process of being con­struct­ed near Men­with. maybe coin­ci­dence but could also be an ensured pow­er sup­ply dur­ing the com­ing oil crash??

“In some cas­es, (a mil­i­tary) instal­la­tion can depend on near­by gen­er­a­tion, includ­ing renew­able ener­gy for its back­up ener­gy sup­ply where the util­i­ty has the capa­bil­i­ty of seg­re­gat­ing its ser­vice area from out­side influ­ences. This cre­ates self-sus­tain­ing region­al “islands” which should not be over­looked as instal­la­tions engage in emer­gency plan­ning to serve crit­i­cal instal­la­tion func­tions. Plan­ning must nec­es­sar­i­ly be coor­di­nat­ed with region­al ener­gy sup­pli­ers, trans­mis­sion com­pa­nies, and major ener­gy users.”

Aldermaston Nuke Frocks and shots: on cocktail parties and builder blocking

Yet anoth­er fan­tas­tic oppor­tu­ni­ty to mix busi­ness with plea­sure! Alder­mas­ton Wom­en’s peace camp(aign) host anoth­er fab­u­lous wom­en’s cock­tail par­ty at the peace camp on Sat­ur­day 12 July, while Block the Builders meet in near­by Read­ing the fol­low­ing after­noon to plot the down­fall of the nuclear-indus­tri­al com­plex 😉

Aldermaston camp cocktail flierYet anoth­er fan­tas­tic oppor­tu­ni­ty to mix busi­ness with plea­sure! Alder­mas­ton Wom­en’s peace camp(aign) host anoth­er fab­u­lous wom­en’s cock­tail par­ty at the peace camp on Sat­ur­day 12 July, while Block the Builders meet in near­by Read­ing the fol­low­ing after­noon to plot the down­fall of the nuclear-indus­tri­al com­plex 😉

Since 2002, the Atom­ic Weapons Estab­lish­ment Alder­mas­ton has been the recip­i­ent of a sub­stan­tial invest­ment pro­gramme to upgrade and devel­op new nuclear weapons facil­i­ties. The project is on the same scale as Heathrow’s Ter­mi­nal Five. Alder­mas­ton is where Britain research­es, designs and man­u­fac­tures it’s nuclear weapons. Lat­est news and back­ground info on devel­op­ments at the site can be found at http://www.aldermaston.net/news.

In March 2007 a par­lia­men­tary vote paved the way for a new fleet of nuclear-armed sub­marines to replace the exist­ing four Tri­dent subs, with deci­sions and announce­ments on new war­heads and mis­siles expect­ed to be made over the com­ing years (…in pub­lic … though who would buy £15bn sub­marines with­out already hav­ing com­mit­ted to arm­ing it?)

Between 2006 and 2007 new leg­is­la­tion was intro­duced aimed at lim­it­ing the right to and scope of protest at Britain’s nuclear weapons facil­i­ties (SOCPA and mil­i­tary lands byelaws).
Despite this, in March 2008 an esti­mat­ed 5,000 peo­ple came to Alder­mas­ton to make their voic­es heard in oppo­si­tion to the exten­sion of Britian’s nuclear weapons pro­gramme, and the wom­en’s peace camp con­tin­ues its 23-year tra­di­tion as a vis­i­ble pres­ence at the wire.

The camp is invit­ing women to come to Alder­mas­ton on Sat­ur­day 12 July to join a cel­e­bra­tion of the right to protest (frocks and shots option­al but encour­aged) and of wom­en’s strength in the strug­gle against patri­ar­chal mil­i­tary mad­ness. Music, snacks, veg­an cake (pos­si­bly…), ice and a twist.

Non­vi­o­lent direct action net­work Block the Builders are meet­ing the fol­low­ing day in Read­ing to dis­cuss the ongo­ing builder-block­ing efforts at Alder­mas­ton, aimed at slow­ing and cost­ing the con­struc­tion of new weapons-relat­ed facil­i­ties. See http://www.blockthebuilders.org.uk for details.

Come and meet us, dis­cuss the issues and have a fab­u­lous time!

info@aldermaston.net
http://www.aldermaston.net

Camp for Climate Action: Great Rebel Raft Regatta update & newspaper launched

THE GREAT REBEL RAFT REGATTA UPDATE

RaftsTHE GREAT REBEL RAFT REGATTA UPDATE

Fol­low­ing a pro­fes­sion­al recon­nais­sance and Health and Safe­ty test trip by boat last Wednes­day, rebel rafters and expe­ri­enced sailors gave the thumbs up for the water borne dis­obe­di­ence on the Mass Day of Action, August 9th. Launch­ing with the tides and if the weath­er is not blow­ing a gale, the action was deemed total­ly do able and has the poten­tial to be a spec­tac­u­lar suc­cess. The key will be in the num­ber of rafts, the more rafts ( or any­thing that floats !) there are the more impos­si­ble it will be for the forces of dark­ness to stop the arma­da reach­ing it’s tar­get. So start pack­ing pad­dles, canoes,inflatables, rafts, dinghies, amphibi­ous vehi­cles etc.. with your tent. Try to encour­age any yacht or boat peo­ple, pirates or sailors you know to join in. All rebel rafters will be requit­ed to attend a water safe­ty work­shop that will be run dai­ly for the three
days lead­ing up to the day of action, and will have to wear life jack­ets ( if you don’t have your own, these will be pro­vid­ed by the camp). A write up is avail­able on the GRRR web­site.

Mean­while many groups across the coun­try are get­ting excit­ed by the GRRR bug and plan­ning to build rafts and get teams togeth­er. If your group has any news, pic­tures of rafts or ideas to share, then send it to the con­stant­ly updat­ed news feed on www.thegrrr.net . For any fur­ther enquiries email: pirates@thegrrr.net

CLIMATE CAMP NEWSPAPER HITS THE STREETS AND FESTIVALS

Last week 30,000 news­pa­pers, beau­ti­ful­ly designed in black and bright cyan and not look­ing any­thing like a bor­ing polit­i­cal paper, came off the print­ing press and began their jour­ney around the coun­try.

Pub­lished to inspire peo­ple to come to the camp it is filled with full pages images of last years events, por­traits of hot cli­mate campers, a stun­ning map of this years camp and texts that describe the pol­i­tics of rad­i­cal cli­mate activism. If you would like copies to hand out in the street, fes­ti­vals, drop off in cafe’s etc. con­tact distribution@climatecamp.org.uk with your address and how many you want, they will be sent out asap or ring Isa 07984158 108 to find out where you can pick some up. The pdf’s is now online here: http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/node/23

Trial Set for McDonalds Protester!

Date for tri­al set for Cam­bridge pro­test­er. Sup­port appre­ci­at­ed!

The cam­paign­er who was arrest­ed under Sec­tion 5 of the Pub­lic Order Act in a McLi­bel anniver­sary protest in Cam­bridge (See http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/401637.html for details and video) had his first hear­ing last Thurs­day. A tri­al date of the 15th Sep, 10.00 a.m. at Cam­bridge Mag­is­trates Court at 43 Haux­ton Road, Cam­bridge was set. The court set a full day tri­al for the case.

Date for tri­al set for Cam­bridge pro­test­er. Sup­port appre­ci­at­ed!

The cam­paign­er who was arrest­ed under Sec­tion 5 of the Pub­lic Order Act in a McLi­bel anniver­sary protest in Cam­bridge (See http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/401637.html for details and video) had his first hear­ing last Thurs­day. A tri­al date of the 15th Sep, 10.00 a.m. at Cam­bridge Mag­is­trates Court at 43 Haux­ton Road, Cam­bridge was set. The court set a full day tri­al for the case.

The pros­e­cu­tion hand­ed over wit­ness state­ments and said they want­ed to use CCTV from McDon­alds as well as a Youtube video (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld3I4zVxc2A). Well, have a look and judge for your­self. What an evil dan­ger­ous protest, right?

The cam­paign­er is still await­ing his request for legal aid and so has no rep­re­sen­ta­tion at this time.

Sec­tion 5 of the Pub­lic Order Act basi­cal­ly is words or behav­iour like­ly to cause ‘harass­ment, alarm or dis­tress’ and as we all know hold­ing a plac­ard and express­ing your views in McDon­alds is very harass­ing, alarm­ing and dis­tress­ing and a ter­ri­ble crime!

Tri­al Date:
15th Sep, 10.00 a.m. at Cam­bridge Mag­is­trates Court at 43 Haux­ton Road, Cam­bridge – Sup­port Wel­come!

New Social Centre Opens / Frome Squatters’ Network

6.07.2008
The new Social Cen­tre in Frome, a short ways south of Bath, is host­ing it’s first pub­lic event this Thurs­day — the first meet­ing of the Frome Squat­ters’ Net­work!

The Frome Autonomous Zone

6.07.2008
The new Social Cen­tre in Frome, a short ways south of Bath, is host­ing it’s first pub­lic event this Thurs­day — the first meet­ing of the Frome Squat­ters’ Net­work!

The Frome Autonomous Zone
..is a large house on Som­er­set Road, Frome, which aims to become a ful­ly func­tion­ing Social Cen­tre as soon we get our acts togeth­er. We can offer meet­ing and arts spaces and are work­ing on a music room.

The cen­ter is at 36, Som­er­set Road, near the junc­tion with Wey­mouth Road. Just look for the huge ban­ner and the red and black flag flut­ter­ing proud­ly from the roof!

The Frome Squat­ters’ Net­work
…aims to con­nect with squat­ters and every­one inter­est­ed in squat­ting, in order to cre­ate a social, polit­i­cal and prac­ti­cal net­work for the pro­mo­tion of squat­ting in the Frome area. If you’re in the area and look­ing to squat, drop by — there’s plen­ty of emp­ties to go round!

The meet­ing begins at 7pm.

No Cops — No Journos — No Fash

Arsonist hit car dealership (Athens, 5/7/2008)

A fire erupt­ed at 03:22, inside a car deal­er­ship, on Kala­makiou street, 97, at Alimos, wreck­ing 5 cars and dam­ag­ing 14 oth­ers and also the build­ing.

Source: http://www.naftemporiki.gr/news/static/08/07/05/1535490.htm

A fire erupt­ed at 03:22, inside a car deal­er­ship, on Kala­makiou street, 97, at Alimos, wreck­ing 5 cars and dam­ag­ing 14 oth­ers and also the build­ing.

Source: http://www.naftemporiki.gr/news/static/08/07/05/1535490.htm

250 hens liberated for Sean Kirtley

“With one more com­rade behind bars, we decid­ed to turn to a more direct form of action.

250 hens liberated for Sean Kirtley250 hens liberated for Sean Kirtley“With one more com­rade behind bars, we decid­ed to turn to a more direct form of action. Sean Kirt­ley got over 4 years for edit­ing a web­site. So why both­er doing any­thing legal?

Tak­ing the mes­sage from the gov­ern­ment loud and clear, we took up the tools of lib­er­a­tion dur­ing the night and made our way to an egg bat­tery farm south of York. We ‘broke in’ by open­ing the door to the low­er sec­tion of the farm and climb­ing up to the cages. Over-night we freed 250 hens and took them all to new homes across the coun­try.

This action is ded­i­cat­ed to Sean whose spir­it will still be out­side those bars help­ing ani­mals in the face of gov­ern­ment stitch-ups and a cor­rupt legal sys­tem.

The change is in our hands, the bat­tle has just begun…
The Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front”

anony­mous com­mu­nique — addi­tion­al pho­tos

Sup­port Sean Kirt­ley

Support Sarah Whitehead

Sarah White­head is a com­mit­ted veg­an activist who has ded­i­cat­ed her life to sav­ing ani­mals and help­ing peo­ple. She worked tire­less­ly as a nurse whilst res­cu­ing and rehom­ing abused and neglect­ed ani­mals, as well as cam­paign­ing against the noto­ri­ous Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences.

Sarah WhiteheadSarah White­head is a com­mit­ted veg­an activist who has ded­i­cat­ed her life to sav­ing ani­mals and help­ing peo­ple. She worked tire­less­ly as a nurse whilst res­cu­ing and rehom­ing abused and neglect­ed ani­mals, as well as cam­paign­ing against the noto­ri­ous Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences. She is not some­one to sit back and let ani­mals be tor­tured and abused, she stands up and fights wher­ev­er she sees injus­tice and nev­er puts her­self first.

Sarah had been informed about an abused bea­gle. It was liv­ing out­side in a wood­en cage, and was muz­zled at all times except for when it got to eat. The dog was made to wear an elec­tric shock col­lar and the neigh­bours informed Sarah that they had wit­nessed beat­ings from its own­ers. The neigh­bours had also heard the dog scream­ing on many occa­sions.

The RSPCA had been called numer­ous times, but they failed to help this dog and left it with own­ers who had on occa­sions tied it to a radi­a­tor.

All avenues had been explored in try­ing to lift this ani­mal from hell. The RSPCA, despite numer­ous com­plaints and vis­its to the own­ers, did noth­ing; even the police had been called by neigh­bours, but they just told them to call the RSPCA.

What else was Sarah to do, but res­cue the bea­gle her­self? How else could this bea­gle be saved? Know­ing how much it was suf­fer­ing, could any­one just leave this bea­gle to live in pain?

Sarah was already on a sus­pend­ed sen­tence for res­cu­ing ani­mals from a noto­ri­ous pup­py farmer in West Sus­sex, which meant that if she re-offend­ed with­in two years she would be sent to prison for that “crime”. Even know­ing this risk to her free­dom, Sarah put the dog’s life and well-being first and lift­ed him to free­dom.

Unknown to Sarah she was under police sur­veil­lance dur­ing the res­cue as part of Oper­a­tion Achilles and the cam­paign against Hunt­ing­don Life Sci­ences. Police fol­lowed her and watched her res­cue the bea­gle, and then watched her take the dog to its sec­ond stage of its jour­ney to it’s new home.

How­ev­er, once the bea­gle was hand­ed over, instead of fol­low­ing the bea­gle in order to return it to its own­er, they car­ried on fol­low­ing Sarah. Luck­i­ly this means that the bea­gle is still safe and liv­ing in a lov­ing home.

Some time lat­er once the police had fin­ished fol­low­ing Sarah around she was arrest­ed, the police weird­ly tried to accuse her of steal­ing the dog so that she could sell it for £500 to raise mon­ey for SHAC (Stop Hunt­ing­don Ani­mal Cru­el­ty) Where this sum of £500 came from is any­one’s guess and it shows how lit­tle the police under­stand the con­cept of ani­mal rights!

Sarah went on tri­al for bur­glary in June 2008. She plead­ed not guilty to the offence as she believed she had not com­mit­ted a crime in res­cu­ing this bea­gle. She told the court she believed she had act­ed rea­son­ably and hon­est and that it was the right thing to do because the police and RSPCA had failed to save this dog. State­ments from the neigh­bours were read in court which described the cru­el­ty to the dog, the beat­ings, and the screams but bizarrely the jury took the view that Sarah should have left the dog where it was and she was found guilty.

The judge sen­tenced Sarah to two years in prison, nine months of this is from the sus­pend­ed sen­tence she was on, and the extra 1 1/3 years is for res­cu­ing the bea­gle.

You can write to Sarah at:

Sarah White­head VM7684
HMP Bronze­field,
Woodthor­pe Road,
Ash­ford,
Mid­dx
TW15 3JZ.
Unit­ed King­dom

Click here for Sarah’s sup­port page

Before going to prison, Sarah cam­paigned for the fol­low­ing groups, so please check out their web­sites:

Stop Hunt­ing­don Ani­mal Cru­el­ty
South­ern Ani­mal Rights Coali­tion
Grey­hound Action
Uncaged
BUAV
Veg­an Pris­on­ers Sup­port Group
Dr Had­wen Trust

ELF target Coca-Cola twice and wild boar freed

In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Aus­tri­an activists, impris­oned ille­gal­ly by the state, the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front (ELF) twice this month tar­get­ed Coca-Cola in Mex­i­co for their crimes against the earth and its inhab­i­tants, whilst in Spain, ELF and Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front activists report­ed that they freed a boar that was await­ing death.

In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Aus­tri­an activists, impris­oned ille­gal­ly by the state, the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front (ELF) twice this month tar­get­ed Coca-Cola in Mex­i­co for their crimes against the earth and its inhab­i­tants, whilst in Spain, ELF and Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front activists report­ed that they freed a boar that was await­ing death.

Report­ed: 28th June

received anony­mous­ly:

“On June 1 the bot­tler and dis­trib­u­tor of the multi­na­tion­al coca cola was attacked in Mex­i­co state; its walls were cov­ered in paint and a large paint­ing at the entrance read, ‘Multi­na­tion­al mur­der­ers;’ the attacks do not stop and will go on increas­ing.

Sol­i­dar­i­ty with pris­on­ers of Aus­tria!
For ani­mal lib­er­a­tion!
For the lib­er­a­tion of the land!
For human lib­er­a­tion!
Sab­o­tage and direct action!

FLT/ELF”

Report­ed: 24th June

trans­la­tion from www.accionvegana.org:

“On thurs­day 12 of june we freed a wild boar in Cac­eres. We opened the fence that kept him encaged. This easy action has giv­en back free­dom to an ani­mal that was wait­ing to be mur­dered by hunters.

We want to show our sol­i­dar­i­ty with our Aus­tri­an com­rades repressed and to every ani­mal lib­er­a­tion activist in jail.

ALF/ELF”

Report­ed: 7th June

anony­mous com­mu­nique (trans­la­tion):

“Coca-Cola, one of the Amer­i­can multi­na­tion­als respon­si­ble for the destruc­tion of our plan­et, com­plic­it in the exploita­tion and theft of water from indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties (Chi­a­pas), gen­er­at­ing human exploita­tion by forc­ing chil­dren to work more than 10 hours a day in their sug­ar­cane crops (El Sal­vador), mas­sive pol­lu­tion of rivers with tox­ic prod­ucts (India), con­trac­tor of para­mil­i­tary groups that killed union work­ers (Colom­bia), financer of death by vol­un­tar­i­ly giv­ing a por­tion of their prof­its to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, racist since the days of Nazi Ger­many, part­ner­ing with large mag­nates and multi­na­tion­als such as Nes­tle, McDon­alds, Chrysler, Tex­a­co, (like­wise) respon­si­ble for glob­al warm­ing, the bru­tal exploita­tion of the land and the food cri­sis afflict­ing the world today, should be a pri­ma­ry objec­tive for all those com­bat­ants who are fight­ing against the many aber­ra­tions and for the lib­er­a­tion of the land, ani­mals and humans, because this glob­al com­pa­ny alone is an exam­ple of the influ­ence of the cap­i­tal­ist sys­tem on its own­ers, the extreme abuse of pow­er and the advanc­ing of its glob­al con­trol over many inno­cents.
Hence the Frente de Lib­eración de la Tier­ra has tak­en firm action against this scourge; in the evening of June 5 the walls of the com­pa­ny were splashed with paint with a spe­cial stench, the vehi­cles of the admin­is­tra­tors were like­wise vic­tims of our first but not last attack.
We will return but with even more force.

Ded­i­cat­ed to the fight­ers of Aus­tria = recent­ly impris­oned by the fas­cist state of that coun­try.
For­ward!

..:FLT:.. – Esta­do de Méx­i­co”

See also the pre­vi­ous Mex­i­can ALF/ELF action, click here

coal power station actions in Australia

Yes­ter­day (Fri­day June 27) CIA (Con­cerned, Inde­pen­dent Activists) locked on to and shut down a con­vey­or trans­port­ing coal into Muja pow­er sta­tion in Col­lie. Two activists were arrest­ed.

Muja power station actionYes­ter­day (Fri­day June 27) CIA (Con­cerned, Inde­pen­dent Activists) locked on to and shut down a con­vey­or trans­port­ing coal into Muja pow­er sta­tion in Col­lie. Two activists were arrest­ed.

In the ear­ly hours of this morn­ing a group of cli­mate cam­paign­ers entered the perime­ter of the Muja coal-fired pow­er sta­tion near Col­lie. West­ern Aus­tralia and shut down the con­vey­or belt sup­ply­ing coal into the sta­tion. This is a peace­ful protest against the con­tin­ued use and expan­sion of pol­lut­ing and unsus­tain­able pow­er gen­er­a­tion in West­ern Aus­tralia. One per­son has locked onto the con­vey­or belt used to trans­port coal into the pow­er sta­tion, pre­vent­ing its oper­a­tion and stop­ping the con­vey­or belt sup­ply of coal into the plant. Ben­jamin Cody, a thir­ty year old father of four from Bun­bury said that he was shut­ting down the plant to high­light and protest against gov­ern­ment approval of two new coal-fired pow­er sta­tions and plans for the con­struc­tion of two more. “Each of these will have a life­time of at least thir­ty years, com­mit­ting our­selves and future gen­er­a­tions of West Aus­tralians to dirty, pol­lut­ing and unre­li­able ener­gy until around 2040. The Car­pen­ter and Rudd Gov­ern­ments need to be held account­able, and the tran­si­tion to WA’s dean ener­gy future has to start now,” Mr Cody said. “Gen­er­at­ing elec­tric­i­ty from coal-fired pow­er sta­tions is the dirt­i­est way to pro­duce pow­er on the plan­et Col­lie could be the ‘Sil­i­con Val­ley’ of renew­able ener­gies if the gov­ern­ment were to direct invest­ment into renew­able tech­nol­o­gy. Instead this mon­ey is all being direct­ed towards the coal indus­try”.

Con­cerned Inde­pen­dent Activists (CIA) spokesper­son, Nicholas Mor­gan said, “It is dis­ap­point­ing and frus­trat­ing that short sight­ed politi­cians and vest­ed inter­ests are pre­vent­ing WA from mov­ing for­ward into the renew­able ener­gy indus­try. This is not about tak­ing away jobs, it’s about cre­at­ing more jobs in ener­gy indus­tries that are sus­tain­able and reli­able, such as wind, solar, wave, and geot­her­mal. Cur­rent­ly in Ger­many, there are rough­ly 250,000 jobs in the renew­able ener­gy indus­try which is grow­ing every year,” Mr Mor­gan said,“The world­wide renew­able indus­try is worth over $100 bil­lion and is dou­bling in size every 20 months. Aus­tralia has real inno­v­a­tive strength and could play a big part, with envi­ron­men­tal, employ­ment and oth­er eco­nom­ic ben­e­fits to fol­low. Aus­tralia risks being left behind in the dark ages”.

The action is also tak­ing place in the shad­ow of WA’s gas and ener­gy cri­sis. “It is absolute­ly unac­cept­able that in this day and age the West Aus­tralian gov­ern­ment is still rely­ing on fos­sil fuels for the state’s ener­gy needs” said Mr Mor­gan. “West­ern Aus­trali­a’s ener­gy emer­gency high­lights the need to invest in a range of clean and reli­able resources such as solar and wind. It is a sad joke that the gov­ern­ment is respond­ing to the lack of gas by reopen­ing the states dirt­i­est pow­er sta­tion which was decom­mis­sioned because it used old, pol­lut­ing tech­nol­o­gy”.

This action is part of a grow­ing trend around Aus­tralia of com­mu­ni­ties who are frus­trat­ed with the lack of action being tak­en by gov­ern­ments on cli­mate change. “All over the world peo­ple are reclaim­ing their pow­er and assert­ed their right to live in a world free from dan­ger­ous cli­mate change”.

———-

3rd July 2008 — Cli­mate Camp hails Green­peace action: promis­es more to come…

Organ­is­ers of the Camp for Cli­mate Action have applaud­ed Green­peace for this morn­ing shut­ting down the coun­try’s biggest sin­gle source of car­bon diox­ide, Erar­ing Pow­er Sta­tion, south of New­cas­tle…

Erar­ing pow­er sta­tion is equal first in the dubi­ous hon­our of biggest CO2 emit­ter in Aus­tralia with anoth­er Hunter pow­er sta­tion, Bayswa­ter in Muswell­brook.

Camp spokesper­son, Hol­ly Creenaune, said that direct action against the caus­es of cli­mate change was a rea­son­able response to the inac­tion of Gov­ern­ment on reduc­ing coal depen­dence.

“The longer the Gov­ern­ment pre­var­i­cates on this issue, the more peo­ple will take action them­selves against coal pow­er and exports.”

“Green­peace have tak­en action that any rea­son­able per­son would take in the face of the urgent need to stop emit­ting green­house gas­es and the hes­i­tan­cy of Gov­ern­ment to take lead­er­ship.

“Next week hun­dreds of peo­ple will fol­low their bold lead and take part in the largest sin­gle direct action against the caus­es of cli­mate change that Aus­tralia has ever seen.”

The Camp for Cli­mate Action will cul­mi­nate in a peace­ful direct action on 13th July at the Car­ring­ton coal ter­mi­nal, where hun­dreds of peo­ple will walk onto the coal rail line and stop coal exports in their tracks.

“This is the real­i­ty of the sit­u­a­tion: hav­ing wast­ed the last decade doing noth­ing about cli­mate change but car­ry­ing on increas­ing our green­house pol­lu­tion, we are now faced with the need to begin decom­mis­sion­ing pow­er sta­tions and wind­ing back coal exports.”

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion

Hol­ly Creenaune 0417 682 541
Georgina Woods 0438 223 771