basingstoke

The occupation of the Basingstoke incinerator ended this morning at 10.15am when aerial bailiffs removed the last of the five remaining activists from a cargo net suspended from the roof of the building. The 100 strong invasion by Greenpeace and other anti-incinerator groups from across Britain began on Monday morning and stopped building work at the plant for three days.

Thirteen activists who yesterday halted the construction of the new Basingstoke incinerator have vowed to maintain their occupation, despite the arrest of seven of their colleagues. Today bailiffs climbed onto the roof of the building and used bolt-cutters to remove protesters from the structure and ropes to lower them the hundred feet to the ground. Greenpeace climbers meanwhile are securing themselves inside the plant and others are now chained to the cranes. One hundred volunteers from anti-incineration groups across the country invaded the plant yesterday at dawn.

The occupation of the Basingstoke incinerator ended this morning at 10.15 am, as aerial bailiffs removed the last of the five remaining activists from a cargo net suspended from the roof of the building.

100 activists from anti-incineration groups the country had joined forces with Greenpeace and invaded the plant at 6.30 am on Monday morning, stopping construction for three days.