Climate Camp Cymru invade Nant-Helen opencast mine
Activists from Climate Camp Cymru invaded Nant Helen open cast coalmine in south Wales earlier today. Despite disproportionate policing at the 2010 camp, groups of activists persisted in their objectives to witness the destructive operations at Nant Helen open cast mine, owned by Celtic Energy.
The activists entered the coal hole at Nant Helen, where 450,000tonnes of coal per year are dug out of a hole approximately 150m deepand 1.5 x 1 km wide. Celtic Energy have applied for planning permissionfor the mine to expand. This coal is mostly destined for Aberthaw Power Station, to be burntfor electricity, which is one of the dirtiest and most carbonintensive industrial processes.
Activist Ffion Dafys said “ripping up mountains to dig holes hundredsof meters deep destroys the landscape and the localenvironment. The coal removed and burnt will generate millions oftonnes of CO2 over the next four years.
“Coal seams in Glynn Neath will continue to be exploited and extended byopen cast mining corporations like Celtic Energy, causing environmentaldestruction until these operations cease. Observing from the bottom of thecoal hole really brought home the enormity of the destruction.”
police done a good job moving you on hope you enjoyed your wasted time maybee you should go and get yourselves a real job.POLICE 1 CLIMATE CAMP 0 LOL
coalman on August 17, 2010
or you could look at it like this:
1. Police have done a good job wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds of precious public funds to unnecessarily remove a small number of peaceful campers from a field.
2. Time spent defending what you belive to be right is never time wasted.
3. Climate Camp is not about scoring points over the police.
4. ‘Real jobs’ are not those that involve destroying local and global ecosystems, endangering indigenous ways of life, perpetuating injustice and oppressing the views and the rights of those you oppose.
whats in a name on August 18, 2010
talk about real jobs, any of you know what the word means, i have wiped better of the bottom of my shoes than you workshy wasters
roryblue on August 19, 2010
Hey coalman,I was at Climate Camp.And yes ,I do have a job (I’m a nurse),and that’s a usefull job,unlike yours.
Dave on August 19, 2010
The final stages of the mining under the present permission, let alone the proposed extension to the excavations, will bring the operation too close to hundreds of peoples’ homes.
The propsed extension would be an environmental disaster digging the stuff out, and then cause further environmental damage by burning the fuel.
Time for the mine to be closed, not extended.
Stephen on September 9, 2010