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Home | Friday 21st August 2009 | Issue 688

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A WALES OF A TIME

As preparations for Climate Camp London step up, the Welsh Climate Camp Cymru has drawn to a close. The camp ended on a high with a march on Friday 15th from the campsite to the site of the open-cast coal mine at Ffos-y-Fran in a symbolic ‘reclaiming of the land’.

Although the police halted the demonstraters as they attempted to enter, the event passed off peacefully with only a few stop-and-searches conducted and the members of camp happy that they had achieved publicity for this controversial issue. If the proposed extension of the mine goes it ahead, it will generate as much CO2 per year as the entire country of Mozambique.

As the camp wound down on the 16th, the message went out that campaigners in Wales will continue to take action against the root causes of climate change and will join other climate protesters in the run up to the Copenhagen climate summit in December.

* For photos of the camp and more info see http://climatecampcymru.org



 

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