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Home | Thursday 17th September 2009 | Issue 691

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TURNING ON THE MAINS

After well over two months of successful disruption of preparations to carve out a new open cast coal mine in Scotland, campers at Mainshill Solidarity Camp (See SchNEWS 682) need urgent assistance. Taking advantage of the lull after this year’s roving Camp For Climate Action – which set up at the site in August (See SchNEWS 687), Forestry Commission workers have re-started clearing trees within the intended site in the past few days.

This is despite Scottish Coal still not yet having carried out the ecological surveys at Mainshill ‘ordered’ as part of the planning approval process. It’ll be pretty hard to assess woodland life, the badger setts or bat and bird colonies once their habitats have been ripped up, but maybe that’s the point...

The protest camp is continuing to construct defences - including tunneling – but more numbers are needed to keep up the pressure, and to prevent them completing the destruction of this site ready for more fossil fuelishness, bitterly opposed by a huge majority of residents... and anyone else of sound mind. To plan yer spell up north or for info on other ways to help, see http://mainshill.noflag.org.uk



 

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