On Wednesday 25th January 2006 West Berkshire Planning Committee will meet a second time to consider whether to support AWE' Aldermaston’s full
planning notice for the controversial Orion laser facility after they voted on 23 November 2005 to defer their decision when the Ministry of Defence had failed to provide them vital environmental information. The whole project, according to AWE's in-house newspaper "AWE Today", will make AWE one of the largest construction sites in the UK - similar in scale to the Terminal 5 project at Heathrow. If built, the laser will enable the UK government to test and build the next generation of nuclear weapons.

If the Committee approves the application for the laser on 25th January, the direct-action campaign Block The Builders will carry out a publicly announced blockade on the following Monday, 30 January 2006. Please put this date in your diary now and encourage others to join us - you don't have to be a pledger to take part in the blockade. Details of the blockade are posted on the front page of the BtB website (  http://www.blockthebuilders.org.uk/index.php).

And for those of you who want to be there to find out for yourselves, and support the opposition to the laser, the planning meeting will take place at 6.00 pm on 25 January at the Calcott Centre, Highview (off Royal Avenue) in
Calcott, Reading RG314XD. How to get there, click here:
 http://tinyurl.com/8d763

See  http://www.blockthebuilders.org.uk for confirmation of the blockade.
Info will be posted by 26 Jan.