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Photos of Mainshill camp after police destruction

Alec Smart | 01.02.2010 19:27 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Social Struggles

Images made of the evicted and destroyed Mainshill protest camp in Scotland.

mainshill camp after eviction and destruction
mainshill camp after eviction and destruction

mainshill after eviction - diggers ready to begin coal extraction
mainshill after eviction - diggers ready to begin coal extraction

forest behind the former camp, felled and logged
forest behind the former camp, felled and logged

mainshill after eviction and destruction
mainshill after eviction and destruction


The Mainshill camp near Douglas in south Lanarkshire, Scotland, set up to prevent the digging of a massive open-cast coalmine, was evicted and cleared by the Scottish police and their professional camp eviction assistants during the last week of January 2010.
The trees were felled, treehouses destroyed, tunnels excavated to remove those occupying them, and 43 arrests made.
The primary camp is no more, although there are smaller camps dotted around the excavation site, and environmentalists involved in the operation to prevent the excavation of the open cast coalmine are regrouping to consider tactics.
These images, taken Saturday 30 January 2010, feature the ruined aftermath of the camp (because I missed the eviction, which police conducted in surprise days before expected camp reinforcements and personnel arrived).

Alec Smart

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Display the following 7 comments

  1. documenting the site — Kez
  2. painful — anon
  3. Local Support — anonymouse
  4. Well said — Chipper
  5. @ anonymouse — anon
  6. and another thing! — anon
  7. loosing the battle, winning the war — Ross