Two big barricades, two lock-ons and work stopped again at Mainshill Wood

26/10/2009
This morn­ing at around 7am the access road being used by log­gers and oth­er con­trac­tors to gain access to Main­shill Wood was block­ad­ed by res­i­dents at the Main­shill Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp.

Work has now been stopped for over five hours, with two big bar­ri­cades and two peo­ple locked-on.

The Sol­i­dar­i­ty Camp has been occu­py­ing part of the site of a new open­cast coal mine in South Lanark­shire for over four months now, and for weeks relent­less actions against Scot­tish Coal and con­trac­tors has slowed the destruc­tion tak­ing place at the site.

More infor­ma­tion and pho­tographs will fol­low — watch this space and get down to the Sol­i­dar­ty Camp.

With this action at Main­shill, dig­ger-div­ing at Ship­ley in Der­byshire and Did­cot Pow­er Sta­tion in Oxford­shire shut down all this morn­ing, it is clear that direct action against new coal is gain­ing momen­tum — no new coal!

mainshill@riseup.net
http://mainshill.noflag.org.uk/