Protestors stop gas pipeline work
crack pipe | 13.11.2006 21:19 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Social Struggles
Today protestors halted National Grid's work on the new 115 mile gas pipeline running from Milford Haven to Gloucestershire.
Protestors have set up a camp in Trebanos, Wales, to use as a base for taking direct action against building work on the National Grid's £700m gas pipeline running from Milford Haven to Gloucestershire.
The construction workers were prevented from working today as the protestors occupied the pipeline.
Here's a relatively good report on the good ole beeb:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm
The construction workers were prevented from working today as the protestors occupied the pipeline.
Here's a relatively good report on the good ole beeb:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm
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14.11.2006 13:17
sorry but this article pulled from another site.....
Work on the controversial Liqufied Natural Gas pipeline has been stopped at Trebanos
A section of the LNG pipeline has been blockaded at Trebanos, in the Swansea Valley by over a dozen activists. All work on that whole area of the project has been stopped. Activists moved onto the site and set up camp at 6am this morning getting inside part of the pipe itself errecting Section 6 notices whilst others climed onto machines. 3 buldozers 2 cranes Around 14 police arrived on site at about midday and seem confused as to their role.
Ire Jones, the owner of the land where the protestors have taken up residence is fully supportive of the protest, She feels she has been bullied by the National Grid into allowing this pipeline to cut across her land and lied to by them as to the size and scale the project.Therefore it is a civil dispute between the protestors and the National Grid’s contractors; not a criminal matter. However in their actions South Wales Police are acting like a private security firm for the National Grid attempting to intimidate protestors off the site and filming heavily.
In order to justify their continuing presence they have claimed they are there to “maintain the peace of the protest and to ensure the health and safety of all concerned” A very bright floodlight is shinning down on the protestors in the name of health and safety, it along with a very noisey generator is being guarded by two police. Police have also errected a roadblock at the bottom of the road leading into the site and are delaying all vechicles entering. It’s manned by two police, with a further two police at the top of the road. All this for what by the police’s own admission is a civil matter.
The pipeline will be 150 miles long from Milford Haven through the Brecon Beacons into England, making it biggest pipeline of it’s kind in Europe. cutting trougth a swathe the width of a motorway. The area on Ire Jones land that has already been destroyed by the contractors was a forest (with 500 year old oaks) and reclaimed farmland. Trebanos has been designated by the British Geological Survey as an area of Geological instability & National Grid plans to blast the area with explosives. In other parts of the route the pipeline passes schools and residencial areas.
National Grid’s have publicly admissted that it has no experience of running a 48” pipeline at 94bar pressure. Accidents like the massive pipeline explosion that killed 12 campers at Carlsbad, New Mexico in 2000 occurred in remote areas & ran at a much lower pressure. At present about a dozen people intend to stay on site and block work from continuing but callfor others to come down to the site to get involved!! For the background on the Liqufied Natural Gas pipeline take a look at “TROUBLE IN THE PIPELINE”
http://www.southwalesanarchists.org/news/gagged13.pdf
Work on the controversial Liqufied Natural Gas pipeline has been stopped at Trebanos
A section of the LNG pipeline has been blockaded at Trebanos, in the Swansea Valley by over a dozen activists. All work on that whole area of the project has been stopped. Activists moved onto the site and set up camp at 6am this morning getting inside part of the pipe itself errecting Section 6 notices whilst others climed onto machines. 3 buldozers 2 cranes Around 14 police arrived on site at about midday and seem confused as to their role.
Ire Jones, the owner of the land where the protestors have taken up residence is fully supportive of the protest, She feels she has been bullied by the National Grid into allowing this pipeline to cut across her land and lied to by them as to the size and scale the project.Therefore it is a civil dispute between the protestors and the National Grid’s contractors; not a criminal matter. However in their actions South Wales Police are acting like a private security firm for the National Grid attempting to intimidate protestors off the site and filming heavily.
In order to justify their continuing presence they have claimed they are there to “maintain the peace of the protest and to ensure the health and safety of all concerned” A very bright floodlight is shinning down on the protestors in the name of health and safety, it along with a very noisey generator is being guarded by two police. Police have also errected a roadblock at the bottom of the road leading into the site and are delaying all vechicles entering. It’s manned by two police, with a further two police at the top of the road. All this for what by the police’s own admission is a civil matter.
The pipeline will be 150 miles long from Milford Haven through the Brecon Beacons into England, making it biggest pipeline of it’s kind in Europe. cutting trougth a swathe the width of a motorway. The area on Ire Jones land that has already been destroyed by the contractors was a forest (with 500 year old oaks) and reclaimed farmland. Trebanos has been designated by the British Geological Survey as an area of Geological instability & National Grid plans to blast the area with explosives. In other parts of the route the pipeline passes schools and residencial areas.
National Grid’s have publicly admissted that it has no experience of running a 48” pipeline at 94bar pressure. Accidents like the massive pipeline explosion that killed 12 campers at Carlsbad, New Mexico in 2000 occurred in remote areas & ran at a much lower pressure. At present about a dozen people intend to stay on site and block work from continuing but callfor others to come down to the site to get involved!! For the background on the Liqufied Natural Gas pipeline take a look at “TROUBLE IN THE PIPELINE”
http://www.southwalesanarchists.org/news/gagged13.pdf
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Night in a pipe, anyone?
14.11.2006 17:15
We urgently need people to come and join us in this protest! There are only around 15 protesters on the site and its vital that we stick it out for as long as possible, so if you can, please come to Pontardawe in the Swansea Valley and show solidarity against this nasty pipe. Contact 
purpleknitwear@hotmail.com for transport information.
purpleknitwear@hotmail.com for transport information.
Sarah Emmerson
e-mail:
purpleknitwear@hotmail.com