Save Radley Lakes Occupation update

12.01.2007

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 coal at the near­by npow­er owned Did­cot pow­er sta­tion.

The occu­pants intend­ed to use the prop­er­ty as envi­ron­men­tal field cen­tre with the sup­port of the local com­mu­ni­ty, where there is mas­sive local oppo­si­tion to the destruc­tion of the last two remain­ing lakes at Radley.

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.

Npow­er took the group to court last Wednes­day but failed to get them evict­ed, but will they try again this Wednes­day 17th and are like­ly to be suc­cess­ful.

But unde­terred the group are lock­ing on and dig­ging in prepa­ra­tion to defend the field cen­tre and pre­vent the destruc­tion of the lakes.

How­ev­er they are bad­ly in need of peo­ple and equip­ment to help with the defence. If you can sup­port the group or donate equip­ment such as wood, ply board, plas­tic sheet­ing, elec­tri­cal tools, build­ing sand, bal­last, shov­els, spades, chain, locks car­bines, poly-prop rope, cable ties, nuts, bolts screws, nails, con­tact adhe­sive, fake fur? and oh yea food con­tact the site on 07772055384, loca­tion OX14 3NG, a 15 minute walk from Radley Sta­tion.
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