18.11.2006

since thurs­day a group protest­ing about lack of safe­ty reg­u­la­tions and pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion have been block­ing the lay­ing of the pipeline right next to the LNG constryc­tion site — they are dig­ging in for the long haul!

Thanks to Schnews newslet­ter I got down to the demo yes­ter­day after­noon to find 3 OAPS hud­dled in a tent on the pub­lic foot­path which runs right through the mid­dle of the mas­sive con­struc­tion site of the new Mil­ford Haven LNG ter­mi­nal.

The weath­er was appalling and they have already roughed it for one night. As soon as they had pitched camp on thurs­day hordes of cops and offi­cials sur­round­ed them with every man­ner of arc lights, gen­er­a­tors, fen­ce­posts, barbed wire and then packed up and went off to leave the site desert­ed for the week­end.

The ower­whelm­ing pres­ence of machin­ery and earth­works seems to blot out the exis­tence of the Safe Haven protest group who are cam­paign­ing to have the offi­cial Risk Assess­ment report released for pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion — apart from the actu­al pipeline there are grave con­cerns over the safe­ty of the re-gas­si­fi­ca­tion plant. Pre­vi­ous acci­dents with this kind of tech­nol­o­gy have been known to pro­duce fire­balls of 27 square Km.

They have been try­ing to raise aware­ness of the issues ever since the vir­taully non-exis­tent pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion for the Plan­ning of this vast and unnec­es­sary white ele­phant — which just turns out to be anoth­er pet project for the mon­ey-spin­ning Car­lyle group [Bush and Sau­di Patron­age].

They are cur­rent­ly on a pub­lic foot­path so there may be a strug­gle to evict them — basi­cal­ly they want to get the Safe­ty report into the pub­lic are­na and believe that if the facts are known they stand to gain con­sid­er­able con­ces­sions even if the whole thing does­n’t get stopped com­plete­ly.

Any sup­port grate­ful­ly appre­ci­at­ed phone 07752 698489 for details

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Any­one wish­ing to con­tact the camp at Tyn y Pant Farm in the Swansea Val­ley where pro­tes­tors are occu­py­ing a length of pipe and have done since Sun­day 12th Novem­ber 2006 please tele­phone 07805 038725. The protest goes into it’s sec­ond week amidst amaz­ing sup­port from the peo­ple of the area who have had enough of being walked over by cor­po­rate busi­ness for the instal­la­tion of a fos­sil fuel indus­tri­al sized pipeline to cre­ate a mar­ket for raped gas from for­eign coun­tries. Remem­ber every time you turn on a gas flame or an elec­tric light that it is not so that you can see or be warm but to enable some­one, some­where, prob­a­bly not in your coun­try, to make a prof­it.
We ask all those who come into con­tact with the fenc­ing sur­round­ing this pipeline to please tie a piece of green cloth or rib­bon to the fence. One piece for every tree that has been destroyed in the wake of the pipeline, one rib­bon for every per­son that will live in fear of this mas­sive pipeline under their feet for the next 30 years if it is not stopped and one rib­bon for every unnec­es­sary death from ter­ror­ism and its caus­es
Thank you for your sup­port all those who have already shown it.