Havoc at Sellafield

Thursday February 14, 2002 19:11

by amanda

100 or so people, 11 arrests, all released without charge. Trains delayed until 12.30pm. 6 mile tailback.

Sellafield, Cumbria, 14thfeb02
6am. We arrived and began to block off 2 main roads leading up to sellafield nuclear power plant. Police were much rougher today than yesterday in Faslane. A snake shaped lock on with 6 people blocked access at a roundabout. Police kicked and shoved people, then tried to pull apart the lock on, despite knowing about chains, padlocks inside the lock on pipes, and everyone screaming for them to stop. They started to use a hacksaw to cut through one pipe, then a protestor put his foot in the way and was arrested. Lots of people hit by police. All 6 in snake lock on arrested, the last at around 10.30am, at this stage a 6-mile tailback prevented workers from entering the site. One guy pulled down a welcome to sellafield sign, and was arrested. Then four people including me made a body lock on (ie no chains) on the road, i passively resisted, went limp, was carried across road, dropped three times then eventually just dumped on the side of the road while the other 3 were arrested. Later in the police station we were told that the Sellafield Police Task Force were on a day off, despite being told about today's protest in December, and despite ringing us 4 times in the last week asking us about today's protest, and despite us telling them that we would be here today.
Several trains were delayed from entering sellafield until 12.30pm, as the signalmen from sellafield area were delayed getting to work because of protests.
Later a security person from BNFL warned us "for your own safety, you should leave the area straight away, otherwise the locals will get hold of you". We have in fact been meeting with some local people, and have been very amiable with them.
All 11 arrestees were released by 6pm with no charge.

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Comments (4 of 4)

close sellafild now ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

by Caroline Tierney - Beech Hill colage

Thu Feb 08, 2007 09:41

I think Sellafild shoud be shut down as soon as posible!!!we are learning about it in school and if anything went wrong and it blow up it would cause havic!!!People in IRELAND and near by countries would be distroied and we dont need this...we need a healthy and cleen invirement!!!

Great news, well done

by Andrew

Fri Feb 15, 2002 16:30

Nice to see some effective action against Sellafield instead of the usual 'vote for me' stunts

sellafield

by ciara

Fri Feb 15, 2002 12:39

sorry I couldn't be there... sounds rough, keep it up, though...
faslane was alwalk in the park compared to this, then? Hope youre still videoing?

Sellafield

by Clare

Thu Feb 14, 2002 20:37