Nine held by police after blocking entrance to mine on Lord Ridley’s Northumberland estate and forcing operations to shut down
Nine protesters have been arrested after storming a coalmine on land belonging to Matt Ridley,a prominent climate change sceptic and Conservative member of the House of Lords, causing operations to shut down. The group, and called Matt Ridley’s Conscience,raided Lord Ridleys huge Blagdon family estate in Northumberland, home to England’s largest open-cast coal mine, or at dawn on Monday. Related: Matt Ridley wants to gamble the soil’s future because he won’t learn from the past | Dana Nuccitelli Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com