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Home | Friday 10th July 2009 | Issue 683

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DIGGING IN

Early last Tuesday (7th) protesters at the Mainshill Solidarity Camp in South Lanarkshire were rudely awoken by police barging a JCB digger into the barricaded entrance to the site. Following at their heels were representatives of both Scottish Coal and drilling company Apex, who rolled flat bed trucks into the site to remove their equipment, including two drilling rigs, a dump truck and two portacabins. The equipment had spent three weeks impounded in the camp, preventing exploratory drilling which has now recommenced at a different location.

Camp activists told SchNEWS that local support had been “overwhelming” and had come from “the most unlikely quarters... Even the police don’t seem up for evicting us”.

Undeterred by the raid, the camp continues and they are currently busy digging tunnels and erecting tree houses, barricades and other “interesting things”.  

* The camp is in urgent need of people to help out and defend it against eviction. For details on how to get there and more see www.coalactionedinburgh.noflag.org.uk or call 07806 926 040  



 

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