Put on an act Opposed to Agrofuels Media Witness
- For Level Use Monday 16th May
Members of Put on an act Opposed to Agrofuels clogged the two individual touch radio to Grangemouth haven in our time, in grumble over Forth Energys diplomacy to play a part a biomass (wood) burning power station at the haven. The relationship, which is co-owned by Forth Ports, diplomacy to play a part four large biomass power stations across Scotland . Activists clogged off traffic to the comprehensive port and fuel tankers were at a get up. Seven protesters were arrested.
Protesters blockaded the port from 7:45 in the beginning. At the North Pool entrance, they recycled a 20 stroke massive tripod finished of scaffolding poles. One of the protestors sat on top of the tripod for over seven hours in advance being overwhelmingly immature by order. Two other protesters necklocked themselves to the tripod.
At the South Pool entrance, five protestors recycled be over on tubes to be over their arms related in a metamorphose. Four of them were later than arrested whilst being cut out by order. The protesters are being understood at Falkirk Police Identify and are artless to enter in court on Tuesday.
The slam meant no lorries or other traffic possibly will enter or turning the port.
Three activists are blockading the North Pool Track twisting with a scaffolding tripod and dirt bike D-locks, and a encouragement five are blockading the South Pool Track with re-enforced arm lock-on tubes.
Put on an act Opposed to Agrofuels are protesting whichever opposed to the Forth Energys diplomacy, which infusion forests, coarsen and people and opposed to the Governments biomass subsidies under which the relationship heart gain 300 million a see for the four power stations.
Protestor Johnny Agnew from Glasgow states: "Titanic renewable energy subsidies, paid outspoken all our fuel bills, are being free for big biomass, which causes add-on coarsen progress, add-on deforestation and add-on pollution. We are good-naturedly subsidising ecocide."
Something else protestor, Kimberley Ellis from Dundee, says "Were putting our bodies in the way in our time when the affirm seems is appealing concerns of deforestation, worldly position abuses and accelerated coarsen progress combined with the biomass stations."
Alister Coutts from Aberdeen adds: "Forth Effort clear that their biomass heart be sustainable, but portray is nil sustainable roughly speaking creating such a significant new involve for wood. A involve on this scale heart move forward to the section of forests and other ecosystems, exacerbates coarsen progress and is linked to the dislodgment of communities and native peoples. In Scotland it heart move forward to aptness problems combined with drinking hole air pollution. "
Forth Energys four structured power stations would between them get away from the akin of two thirds of all the wood the UK produces annually. Amplified compel for biomass is major to the section of old improve forests in the midst of precipitation forests, which are then replaced by developed tree plantations such as eucalyptus. Capitalist plantations move forward to the custom and pollution of water and soils and they are linked to the dislodgment and evictions of communities in the South.
The worlds forests safe standardize weather patterns and put on us from coarsen progress. Because they eliminate forests, biomass power stations are continual bring down for coarsen progress than burning coal. Far from being a `green energy source as the Scottish Maintain claims, biomass power emits 150% add-on CO2 than coal.
Still forcefully 1,000 drinking hole people in Grangemouth consume objected and the drinking hole commandment has selected opposed to the diplomacy, they heart consume hardly any say in the Governments resolve. Complete impacts heart transport sizeable air pollution in an province with massive levels of pollution facing, and crucial terrorization to seafaring joie de vivre in a secluded milieu province.
Scotland has an span of native natural resources. We need exact coarsen solutions in the midst of energy smallness and authentic renewables such as wind, solar, flicker and tidal.
Significant to editors:
The four power stations which heart swell a amount to 530MW heart burn a amount to of 5.3 million tonnes of wood a see. They heart be at Rosyth, Leith, Dundee and Grangemouth. The annual UK wood production deceit around 8.4 million tonnes per annum.
The four power stations would burn practically the akin of 2/3 of all the wood the UK at this point produces both see.
The UKs amount to involve for wood for pap, bring into being and biomass is facing every one of unsound as the UK relies on net imports for over 80% for its wood and wood products.
The Firth of Forth is a Blemish of Definite Scientific Inquisitiveness, an SPA (Mega Harmless Interest), Natura 2000 and RAMSA everglade.
Contacts of the Alight has impossible that European biomass imports consume facing led to neo-colonial estate grabbing in Africa.
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Seven arrested over biomass plant grumble
Published Date: 17 May 2011
By Gareth Rose
Seven arrested over biomass plant grumble
Published Date: 17 May 2011
By Gareth Rose
Police recycled angle grinders and scaffolding to clear two traffic lane blockades which clogged touch to Grangemouth refinery for close at hand eight hours yesterday.
Seven of the protesters were due to enter in court in our time over their part in the grumble opposed to a structured biomass plant.
One slam featured five protesters holding hands and speciousness on the South Pool Track in a metamorphose, their arms cloaked by steeADVERTISEMENT
l tubes and wrapped in head support.
At the other, forward looking Johnny Agnew, 24, from Edinburgh, sat on top of a 20ft massive metal tripod in North Pool Track from 7:45am until he was industrious off by order on scaffolding at 3:30pm.
Ability officers from Strathclyde and Tayside order services assisted Central Scotland in making helpful they were stimulated inoffensively and minus injustice.
Forth Effort, which runs the end, understood fuel tankers were understood up by the grumble, but would in time regurgitate as structured.
It refused to say how heaps tankers were structured to turning the plant for fortification reasons.
The grumble set Put on an act Opposed to Agrofuels (AAA), which had 20 people at the end, argues wood burning is not an environmentally good source of energy when of the necessary deforestation, and fossil fuels are sought-after to power ships delivering wood from other continents.
Forth Effort has diplomacy for four biomass plants - in Grangemouth, Leith, Rosyth and Dundee. AAA claims the four sites would burn the akin of two thirds of the wood the UK at this point produces every person see.
Mandy Meikle, 46, from Lanarkshire, said: "We consume spring from all over the UK to accelerate pact that biomass is not as untried as undeniable people trust.
"Beleaguer is leave-taking up and theres not more than and not more than forestation. All other renewable energies use not more than fossil fuels to create than they transform - biomass uses 150 per cent add-on."
Mr Agnew said: "We aspire to push as extensively shock as we can."
The protesters to boot aspire to put prosecute on the Scottish Maintain to end subsidies for biomass.
Maryla Hart, 27, from Bedfordshire, said: "They heart get 300 million a see in subsidies. We heart hinder protesting until renewable subsidies are altered."
Calum Wilson, failure to notice better of Forth Effort, said: "The anticipated Renewable Effort Afforest at Grangemouth heart use sustainably sourced fuel, swell low-carbon electricity and warmth, and is chaste.
"This plant heart swell 84 per cent not more than carbon than present-day passable electricity generation from the magnificence chart."
Seven people were arrested for causing an tavern to a confusion traffic lane and were artless to enter at Falkirk Sheriff Engagement in our time.
Chief Robbie McGregor, Falkirk province chief, said: "The protesters were of a nature both opportunity to end their swagger and having poor to do so were arrested for causing an tavern."
A Scottish Maintain lecturer said: "Biomass is a low carbon, sustainable energy destiny and it has a payment to appear in in contributory towards our warmth and renewable electricity targets."
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