Sheffield incinerator: climbers on the chimney
Greenpeace volunteers enter their third day of the Sheffield incinerator occupation.
Five volunteers have now been camped at the top of
the incinerator chimney for over 50 hours and are preventing the
incinerator from burning rubbish.
Greenpeace are challenging attempts by Sheffield Council
to get an injunction to end the occupation of the city's
incinerator.
Another six volunteers are still chained to machinery in the main
rubbish tipping area at ground level. The application for an
injunction will be heard at Leeds High Court at 10.30am this
morning (Thursday) and will be opposed by a barrister acting on
behalf of Greenpeace.
Blake Lee-Harwood, Head of the Toxics Campaign at
Greenpeace, said:
"As far as we are concerned our occupation is entirely lawful.
Sheffield incinerator is the worst in Britain and has broken legal
pollution limits 178 times in the past three years."
"We are taking action to end this appalling criminal record and
to stop the incinerator from dumping hundreds of tonnes of
poisonous gases on the people of Sheffield. We are effectively
making a citizens arrest of a repeat offender and want to see
this incinerator shut for good."
