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Updated: Protesters block Coryton oil refinery
1:46pm Saturday 16th October 2010 in News
HUNDREDS of climate change protestors blocked the main road leading up to Coryton Oil Refinery.
Twelve members of protest group Crude Awakening locked themselves to immobilised vehicles on both lanes of The Manorway in Stanford-le-Hope. They were joined by between 400 and 500 other protesters who set up a second blockade near to the junction with The Manorway and Rookery Hill.
Officers from the Met, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, and Hertfordshire police forces were drafted into help Essex cops police the demonstration.
Despite the large numbers there were no arrests and the protestors began to move off peacefully at about 5.30pm.
The group had announced plans to target a number of central locations in London as part of a day of action, but claim this was a decoy and Coryton was their target all along.
Protestor Stephen Milligan, 27, from Oxford, said: "It's been an excellent day. For six hours we have stopped tankers full of oil from leaving the refinery."
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Comments(23)
dorothyf
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2:25pm Sat 16 Oct 10
madbuggar
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2:55pm Sat 16 Oct 10
iknoweverything
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5:02pm Sat 16 Oct 10
wilful obstruction of the highway - Section 137 of the Highways Act 1980
they can protest but they cant block the road. Fire brigade cut them free and police arrest them. easy.
Herr Von Pumpenhausen
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5:10pm Sat 16 Oct 10
Steve H
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5:31pm Sat 16 Oct 10
How dare they decide how we all should run our lives.
I'm sure their emissions after a good lentil and prune stew are just as harmful to the climate!!!
Steve H
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5:33pm Sat 16 Oct 10
Surely this is an illegal protest, come on Essex police, pull your fingers out, Tazer the lot of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!
el caballero de la noche
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5:59pm Sat 16 Oct 10
google1
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7:53pm Sat 16 Oct 10
'V'
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8:18pm Sat 16 Oct 10
el caballero de la noche wrote:That's rater an ironic post from someone who goes by the name 'el caballero de la noche', which is Spanish for 'the horseman of the night'.
Anarchist that are miss guided,and believe that we should all return to using horses.
You are exposed as a closet tree-hugger. Pass the lentils you socialist agitator.
Steve H
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8:33pm Sat 16 Oct 10
google1 wrote:Agreed, all the deliverys that were scheduled had been despatched. All the tankers kept waiting at a service station (as per crudeawakening website) were empty.
Well, what a disaster, why blockade a refinery that was all but closed for essential maintainence???? All they managed to do was p*** off an awfull lot of tanker drivers!!!! This protest acheived absolutely NOTHING, only 1 load was prevented from leaving the terminal!!!
Now I know why police took no action, was an easy day out for them.
crudeawakening? Bunch of muppets, I lol so much at your patheticness!
jayman
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8:54pm Sat 16 Oct 10
soufend girl!
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9:11pm Sat 16 Oct 10
JuliaM
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6:39am Sun 17 Oct 10
There damned well should have been!
'V'
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8:04am Sun 17 Oct 10
JuliaM wrote:Why? The last time I looked we lived in a free democracy where legitimate protest is not illegal.
"... there were no arrests ..."
There damned well should have been!
Mr Anory. Jack
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8:11am Sun 17 Oct 10
How long did protesters wait till they showed themselves up?
It`s a bit like saying tesco is out to be a supreem leader in groceries sales soon!
sure is a funny old world eh...lol
Thurrock's_Banjaxed
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8:51am Sun 17 Oct 10
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I do hope they are out planting trees this morning, to make sure the protest was carbon neutral.
el caballero de la noche
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10:58am Sun 17 Oct 10
'V' wrote:Hi Comrade your dead right mate.
JuliaM wrote:Why? The last time I looked we lived in a free democracy where legitimate protest is not illegal.
"... there were no arrests ..."
There damned well should have been!
Free democracy yes 'Wilful Obstruction' No that is an offence introduced by the democratic system.
Got Yer!!!
xx
'V'
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11:27am Sun 17 Oct 10
el caballero de la noche wrote:Whatever you say Adolf.
'V' wrote:Hi Comrade your dead right mate.
JuliaM wrote:Why? The last time I looked we lived in a free democracy where legitimate protest is not illegal.
"... there were no arrests ..."
There damned well should have been!
Free democracy yes 'Wilful Obstruction' No that is an offence introduced by the democratic system.
Got Yer!!!
xx
j-w
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12:17pm Sun 17 Oct 10
kell74
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3:25pm Sun 17 Oct 10
firedog
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5:52pm Sun 17 Oct 10
Tricky Nick
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6:48pm Sun 17 Oct 10
how very embrassing
Essex Police were once a competent force...........now.
.....mediocre at best
still the command teams keep blowing their own trumpets and back slapping
each other
easy with their heads in the sand
shallotman says...
2:08pm Sat 16 Oct 10