Yesterday at Nine Ladies
heather | 22.02.2004 10:45
some people emailed me cause they want to do something about nine ladies but can't get up there, so heres a brief update from the camp and anyone can help us get more cash together next time we chill our bones on market street.
cheers everyone
cheers everyone
there is so much media attention now, so we went on Market Street again yesterday morning to tell people whats going on, and lots of people came and gave us money cause they'd seen it on the telly, or in the papers (we took the MEN article up with us to show people at nine ladies), and one woman had heard it on the radio yesterday morning. It was so easy even the street wardens left us alone, and we got £27 in one and a half hours which is pretty good. Altogether we took another £87 up in the afternoon, which makes £300 from Manc folk in the last 3 or 4 weeks (although some of it went up as food), so many more hugs to everyone..
Loads more has been done at the camp, everytime we go, its changed and people are working really hard there getting it together. There are a lot of people taking food up now so maybe the best thing is to take money, so it can be used to buy cement and rope etc for reinforcements. Also, when/if the eviction starts, if like me, you ain't happy in tunnels or on ropes, they need people to take photos and to watch what goes on..
we can't go now until the weekend after next (unless the eviction starts - then we're off..) but on saturday 6th march we will be back on market street around 10am for a couple of hours if anyone wants to join us. I know its not the most exciting thing in the world, telling people whats going on, but it works and its kinda nice to see that folk are angry about this. lots of people said yesterday they would email stancliffe and tell them what they think. i think every little light that goes on in people's heads, helps stop these companies doing their dirty work in the dark, even if its only to think about whats goin on in the bad, mad world of tree-trashin for a moment, who knows where it leads?
Loads more has been done at the camp, everytime we go, its changed and people are working really hard there getting it together. There are a lot of people taking food up now so maybe the best thing is to take money, so it can be used to buy cement and rope etc for reinforcements. Also, when/if the eviction starts, if like me, you ain't happy in tunnels or on ropes, they need people to take photos and to watch what goes on..
we can't go now until the weekend after next (unless the eviction starts - then we're off..) but on saturday 6th march we will be back on market street around 10am for a couple of hours if anyone wants to join us. I know its not the most exciting thing in the world, telling people whats going on, but it works and its kinda nice to see that folk are angry about this. lots of people said yesterday they would email stancliffe and tell them what they think. i think every little light that goes on in people's heads, helps stop these companies doing their dirty work in the dark, even if its only to think about whats goin on in the bad, mad world of tree-trashin for a moment, who knows where it leads?
heather
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Offer to 'trade' quarrying consents?
23.02.2004 01:13
"Work may start any day after April 2, the deadline for the Peak National Park Authority to announce what the operating conditions will be.
But there may be one last chance to avert a battle for the tunnels and trees.
The Peak National Park Authority is dead against the quarries being worked again and intends to offer Stancliffe Stone an alternative - permission to extend operations at Dale View quarry half-a-mile from the disputed site. The offer will be made at a meeting in less than two weeks.
If a deal is struck it would mean a stunning victory for the eco-warriors who have guarded the site for more than four years.
John Davies, head of development control for the authority, said he hoped Stancliffe would agree to 'trade' quarrying consents. He added: "We are determined to try to protect the character of the edges of Stanton Moor. It's an extremely sensitive site and a very important part of the National Park."
Rowan
Is this proposed deal the same as in 2001?
23.02.2004 07:43
heather
"Environment campaigners claim today that some of England's finest landscapes are threatened by quarry operators with the legal right to dig on vast tracts of land.
The Council for the Protection of Rural England says county council and national park planners are being held over a barrel by quarry owners who have permission to extract far more material than is needed for house or road building.
The CPRE says research shows that the industry has enough land banks to build more than 112m homes or 85,000 miles of motorway.
Operators can quarry 6bn tonnes of aggregates (sand, gravel and crushed rock).
"The government needs to take urgent action to reduce these land banks," said Henry Oliver, the CPRE's quarrying specialist. "They are a timebomb ticking at the heart of some of our finest landscapes."
Last week planners in the Peak District national park reached a deal to protect Stan ton moor, an ancient upland tract dotted with bronze age stone circles and other monuments. It has not satisfied local residents or eco-campaigners.
A quarrying company can extract more on the edge of the moor in return for giving up its permissions on two other sites, one close to the Nine Ladies stone circle. It has also agreed to build a road to keep traffic away from villages, and to limit lorry movements to 10 a day.
In last year's budget Gordon Brown, the chancellor, announced his intention to introduce an aggregates levy.
But Mr Oliver said ministers' good intentions to protect the countryside and communities from unnecessary quarrying could be "fatally undermined if they fail to get a grip on this problem".
• Jail sentences of up to two years and £5,000 fines are among penalties that came into force yesterday for people who endanger wildlife.
heather