Radley lakes — eviction imminent — update 29th jan

Urgent call for help in Oxford­shire, where activists are occu­py­ing and intend to defend a squat­ted lake­side prop­er­ty in order to pre­vent the infill­ing of Radley Lakes with tox­ic ash from the burn­ing of cheap import­ed coal at the near­by NPow­er owned Did­cot pow­er sta­tion.

Radley Lakes squat
Urgent call for help in Oxford­shire, where activists are occu­py­ing and intend to defend a squat­ted lake­side prop­er­ty in order to pre­vent the infill­ing of Radley Lakes with tox­ic ash from the burn­ing of cheap import­ed coal at the near­by NPow­er owned Did­cot pow­er sta­tion.

The lakes are unusu­al in their clar­i­ty and the area con­tains local and nation­al rare and threat­ened species, with 115 species of birds record­ed and over1000 trees sur­round­ing the lake which will be felled. How­ev­er this has been ignored by pow­er com­pa­ny RWE npow­er, and has been rail-road­ed through by Oxford­shire Coun­ty Coun­cil.

The lake con­tains sev­er­al pro­tect­ed species, includ­ing a pos­si­ble sight­ing of otters, and despite a report paid for by local peo­ple con­firm­ing all this the local gov­ern­ment big­wigs have giv­en per­mis­sion for N Pow­er to fill the lake with fly­ash from Did­cot pow­er sta­tion, killing every­thing in the process. They have already been allowed to do this to 3 oth­er lakes in the imme­di­ate vicin­i­ty. The local coun­ty ecol­o­gist has dis­missed the report, despite a long term cam­paign and evi­dence from anoth­er ecol­o­gist prov­ing the lake is a wildlife haven. The whole thing stinks.

Please, please if you are free this week, (or even bet­ter, right now), get down there, lock on, and make sure they have a fight on their hands. The baliffs are due any minute and more peo­ple are des­per­ate­ly need­ed.

Get off the train at Oxford, then catch train to Radley, takes about 10 mins, then anoth­er 10/15 minute walk. For more info call the site mobile on: 07772055384.

TAT NEEDED!
PolyProp, air horns/ rape alarms, cement, aggre­gate, etc, BOATS (dingy/inflatables etc — lake­wor­thy!) bed­ding & PEOPLE! — even if you can just spare a day to help out with build­ing defences is is much need­ed and appre­ci­at­ed.
Thanks

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24.01.2007 — Npow­er have been grant­ed imme­di­ate pos­s­e­sion of San­dles, the squat­ted field cen­tre at Radley lakes. A call out to any­one to come down and bring cake and lock on tubes!
Call the site mobile 0777 2055 384
www.saveradleylakes.org.uk for more info on the npow­er plans to destroy this beau­ti­ful area