By from IMC UK, submitted by Fabbri on Mon, 21/03/2011 - 22:10
Original post: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/03/476370.html
Extensive damage done to four dumper trucks, two large excavators, two heavy duty bulldozers, a generator and a pump.
On Equinox night we entered the gravel and coal opencast extraction site at Castlebridge near Rosewell, Mid Lothian. The absence of security and the conveniently unlocked cabs made our night very productive. Tyres were drilled, hydraulics and electronics cut. Inside the cabs we found all sorts of expensive goodies like GPS, radios and various dials and screens to rip out and smash. The excavators had a bewildering array of electronic panels and engines the size of cars, we did what we could to immobilise these machines that destroy our health and that of the earth.
Scottish coal will repair what was done, but hopefully at great cost.
We took this action in solidarity with the communities of the Douglas Valley who are currently resisting plans to roll out three new mines over the next couple of years. We aim to undermine the use of coal as a fuel in this country as we will always be reliant on extraction elsewhere in the world, where the damage done to environment and communities is potentially much worse.
Love, Rage and Bolt Croppers
Scottish coal will repair what was done, but hopefully at great cost.
We took this action in solidarity with the communities of the Douglas Valley who are currently resisting plans to roll out three new mines over the next couple of years. We aim to undermine the use of coal as a fuel in this country as we will always be reliant on extraction elsewhere in the world, where the damage done to environment and communities is potentially much worse.
Love, Rage and Bolt Croppers
Fuck Coal
Comments
Re: Machines sabotaged at Rosewell/Catle Bridge Coal Mine
By Anonymous
There is no security because it is not a coal mine, it is a storage site for agricultural machinery.
It was a coal mine until Thatcher killed the coal industry a long long time ago,do try and keep up, now we import coal from Poland, how very green.
Re: Machines sabotaged at Rosewell/Catle Bridge Coal Mine
By Anonymous
Nice to see the youth of today doing their bit to bring an end to locally produced food. Guess we'll continue to expolit the 3rd world famers and ship food accross the world, which is good because it is sooo cheap!
Hurrah for these individuals!
There are some wind trubines that attract rather large government subsidys, any chance you ould smash them up so we will be forced to gobble up all the cheap oil in foreign war zones, Libya must be pretty skint about now, they could prob do us a good deal on ten tankers, and with the cash they could buy more of our weapons,boosting jobs in Britain! think of the benefit to the economy!
Re: Machines sabotaged at Rosewell/Catle Bridge Coal Mine
By Anonymous
Nice to see the youth of today doing their bit to bring an end to locally produced food. Guess we'll continue to expolit the 3rd world famers and ship food accross the world, which is good because it is sooo cheap!
Hurrah for these individuals!
There are some wind trubines that attract rather large government subsidys, any chance you ould smash them up so we will be forced to gobble up all the cheap oil in foreign war zones, Libya must be pretty skint about now, they could prob do us a good deal on ten tankers, and with the cash they could buy more of our weapons,boosting jobs in Britain! think of the benefit to the economy!
Re: Machines sabotaged at Rosewell/Catle Bridge Coal Mine
By CH
Are our temporary visitors claiming that this damaged machinery was agricultural? Best tell The Scotsman that, as they say, "£100,000 worth of coal mining machinery was sabotaged."
Or just carry on with the non sequitors.
Re: Machines sabotaged at Rosewell/Catle Bridge Coal Mine
By Rosewell Resident
This type of nonsense has gone on long enough, time to flush out these enviro-thugs lurking in the woods. Why havent the police caught the culprits there is excellent CCTV coverage with infra-red nightvision, post their ugly mugs
"The raid on a pit in Rosewell, Midlothian, has been labelled "bizarre" by local politicians baffled as to why a surface mine currently being restored for agricultural use has been targeted."