eviction is coming

Today National Grid visited the Brecon protest site to give 'notice to leave'. The notice didn't look like a legal document and National Grid were told to take us to court.

Whilst eviction isn't happening right now this is the first stage and people are needed to get down to the camp in the next week or so to prepare for eviction.

Please get down there if you can!

Today a few of our group were in court. This is the report from the local paper:

Five protesters who halted work on a gas pipeline that will span Wales have pleaded guilty to aggravated trespass.

Calli Shepard, 21, Christopher Brain, 35, Claire Hall, 25, all of Bristol and Ruth Owen, 19, and Louis Sutton, 20, of Sheffield, appeared in court in Neath.

District judge Richard Williams handed the five conditional discharges after hearing of their arrest at a building site in Trebanos, Swansea Valley.

Work on the pipe was stopped for about five hours by the protest in January.

All five were ordered to pay £150 costs towards the prosecution.

'Sincerity'

Prosecutor Ned Gill said the site had been the scene of several protests during the winter.

At about 0700 GMT on 31 January, all five went on to private land where the pipe was being built. They unfolded a blanket and sat down.

Site managers called police but they refused to move and were arrested.

In mitigation David Folland said the protest was peaceful and none of the five attempted to resist arrest.

Mr Williams said he "did not doubt the sincerity" of their campaign but said they should have engaged in the "planning and public inquiry process".

The controversial pipeline will carry natural gas, shipped to Milford Haven in a liquefied state, to Gloucestershire.

Once completed it will supply around 20% of the UK gas needs.

Speaking after the hearing at Neath Magistrates Court, Ms Hall said she would continue to campaign against the pipeline claiming it was dangerous and the UK relied too heavily on fossil fuels.