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Work restarts at Mainshill, resistance needed!

Mainshill Solidarity camp | 15.09.2009 13:53 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Social Struggles

Forestry Commission workers this morning re-started clear-felling large areas of plantation in preparation for a new open cast coal mine. When the clear-felling started in June, Mainshill solidarity camp was set up to stop work on the site and occupy it, preventing any further felling and preventing any of the wood being removed from the site. Support is needed to prevent this destruction.

The area of plantation is well within the intended excavation area on the site. In addition, Scottish Coal have still not carried out the extensive ecological survey at Mainshill that was a condition of the planning approval. How can an accurate survey be conducted after all the woodland has been removed? Badger sets, bats and nests of birds of prey have all bee seen in the plantation at Mainshill.

The Solidarity Camp will stop any work from taking place on the site in preparation for the nine – there is no community consent for this project.

Come to the camp this week to resist more clear-felling – the longer preparatory work is delayed, the greater the cost to Scottish Coal and the stronger this campaign grows!

 http://mainshill.noflag.org.uk/

Mainshill Solidarity camp
- Homepage: http://mainshill.noflag.org.uk/

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15.09.2009 18:24

in addition to this the saftey of the occupiers at mainshill is greatly jeoprodised as not even the police are aware of the full extent of the defences at mainshill,using heavy machinery or even felling trees above an underground defence could be potentionaly fatal to the person occuping it,any work carried out at the proposed site before an eviction team clears the land of defenders is outright neglect of health and safety.

A.Dave

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17.09.2009 15:35

The article above states:

"Forestry Commission workers this morning re-started clear-felling large areas of plantation in preparation for a new open cast coal mine."

Can I please let people know that Forestry Commission Scotland does not own this woodland and never has and its staff are not carrying out the clear felling. I hope the above statement will be corrected.

Many thanks

S.Williams, Forestry Commission Scotland press office