Today, on the advice of CCW, the Welsh Assembly made Costain
stop all work on site pending an (obviously, inevitably successful)
application for the granting of a license to move the dormice. Whether
the Assembly grant this license, or not, will obviously be a political,
not an environmental, decision.

As 1000 meters of dormice habitat has already been trashed, criminal
proceedings are in the process of being started against whoever signed
the order to start work.

The road is also under review at the European Commission - the
Enforcement and Implementation of the law for conservation section- over
the bat habitats en route. Now the dormice habitat information has been
added to this review.

OK- now the legal status of the camp...APPARENTLY (2^nd hand info)
Costain/ Caerphilly council have used this "Harry Potter" ruling to get
an injunction against un- named defendants meaning that a penal warrant,
not a bench warrant, has been issued (??) -people will have to be taken
back to court as individuals and possibly sued if they trespass on
Costain land. However, the camp has permission to be on (tree-d) land
which is due to be trashed, but isn't owned by Costain. This land
adjoins Costain's land. It's complicated, but we are still there,
safe-ish, for now, protecting the trees. There are walkways on both bits
of the site.

*The camp may still be illegally evicted at any time *

*The license to move the dormice is likely to be granted, meaning work
could start again in the very near future.*

*Like at Twyford, civil proceedings could be taken out against people
who break the "Harry Potter" injunction and refuse to leave, or trespass
on, Costain-owned land*

*NOW IS THE TIME TO GET HERE AND CONSOLIDATE RESOURCES AND SHOW WE MEAN
BUSINESS. THIS IS LIKELY TO BE A TEMPORARAY REPRIEVE SO LETS MAKE THE
MOST OF IT. DIRECT ACTION AND COMMITTED LOCAL SUPPORT IS WORKING!*

*We do not want Nine Ladies or Sherwood to lose much needed activists as
a result of people coming to Blackwood, but fucks sake there are enough
of us to cover all sites. Blackwood is winnable!!!!!!!!!!!!*