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Garzweiler (Germany): sabotaging the pylon of the coal mine

Garzweiler : sabotaging the pylon of the coal mine

via: sansnom Translated by Act for freedom now!

Electricity pylon probably sabotaged at a power plant in Germany
dpa (Deutsche Presse-Agentur), 12 March 2023

An 80-meter-high electricity pylon has fallen at the site of an open-pit coal mine in Garzweiler in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The operator of one of the country’s largest power plants, RWE, believes it could be an act of sabotage.

RWE has already been the target of various demonstrations by environmental activists, which have sometimes degenerated, and therefore assumes that the tower was damaged with the intention that it should collapse. A spokesman for the company told the dpa agency on Saturday that if this is sabotage “we condemn it in the strongest terms. The police have confirmed the probable intervention of outsiders”.

According to RWE, the tower supplies the mine with electricity. For safety reasons, two of the four power circuits on the tower in question have been cut off. The Garzweiler mine remains in operation and the power plant can continue to function.

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Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) France : solidarity sabotage of the railway’s power

Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) : solidarity sabotage of the railway’s power

IAATA, March 12, 2023

Found on twitter liO Train SNCF Occitanie@lio_train_sncf
To make Narbonne > Toulouse, there is no liO Train before 19:08 as indicated on the timetable. In the opposite direction, the liO Train are delayed because SNCF installations have been damaged towards Toulouse

Solidarity with the strikes

During the night of March 9th to 10th, a damage of the railway electrical supply took place south of Toulouse. Given the presence of fiber optics along the tracks, it is likely that this was also impacted.
We are among those who refuse the recuperation of the central unions in their little dance of power. Before this social movement, strikes, blackouts and direct actions against fiber optics, the deployment of 5G, had already begun. They will continue.
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Saint-Martin-de-Londres (Hérault): sabotaging the juice of this world (France)

Two transformers set on fire in Hérault, electricity cuts in 15 communes

via: sansnom.

Last night, two electrical transformers in the commune of Saint-Martin-de-Londres were “deliberately damaged by fire”, according to a press release from the Hérault prefecture on Tuesday 7 March. The power was cut in 15 communes of the department.
The events occurred around 3:30 am on the site of the electricity cooperative of Saint-Martin-de-Londres, a small town located in the northeast of the department of Herault. “An intrusion by breaking and entering”, reveals the prefecture, which specifies: “Two transformers have been the object of deliberate damage by fire, generating a temporary power cut in nearly 15 communes, impacting about 8000 homes”.
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Leipzig (Germany): incendiary attack against the forest devourer

Leipzig: incendiary attack against the forest devourer

via: sansnom

[North of the city of Dresden (capital of the region of Saxony) is the Heidebogen (“Heibo”) forest, which has been occupied since August 2021 to prevent it from being razed for the adjoining KBO gravel plant.
On Wednesday, February 15, about 50 people who had built tree houses and erected barricades at Heibo began to be evicted from the forest in a large-scale police operation that ended the next day. Since then, the public company Sachsenforst (the German equivalent of the ONF for the region of Saxony, which also manages the “natural parks” of the region) has taken possession of the site with four harvesters and 70 forestry employees, beginning to level the hectares of state-owned forest promised to the gravel pit.
On Thursday, February 16 in Leipzig, four vans parked in the Sachsenforst parking lot were set ablaze during the night in retaliation, causing nearly 100,000 euros of damage and the opening of an investigation under the aegis of the PTAZ (the Police Center against Terrorism and Extremism). Here is a translation from the German communique, claimed three days later by “anarchists”].

Sachsenforst vehicles set on fire – Heibo stays!

On February 15, the cops commissioned by Sachsenforst started to clear the occupation of the Heibo forest near Dresden. This is the third time this year that an occupation has been evicted. This is the next place where people oppose the destruction. And as in Danni, Hambi or Lützerath*, it is the interests of capital that are to be imposed. The clearing of 900 hectares of forest and the associated destruction of irreplaceable wetlands and springs is unique in Germany. For years, various environmental associations have been warning of the extent of the phenomenon, and for just as long, those responsible have ignored them. The state-owned company Sachsenforst, which is directly subordinate to the Ministry of Ecology of the state of Saxony, is in the front line. A green policy, as usual.

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Treasure Hunt for Coastal Gaslink (Canada)

Treasure Hunt for Coastal Gaslink

Over the past few months, several sections of the coastal gaslink pipeline have been vandalized. Financially, the consequences of each act were minor: a few holes in the pipeline here, some corroded welding seams there, damaged concrete here. Our goal was to contribute to the small delays in a project that was already well over budget.

  1. We drilled holes less than a penny wide in a section of pipe that had not yet been lowered into the trench. We covered the holes with fiberglass film, which temporarily prevents leaks in the pipes, but only lasts a few months. We know that welded sections of coated pipe are assessed before being lowered into the trench. After the trench is backfilled, they are tested under pressure. The holes were sealed in the hope that they would pass the first pressure test, but will have to be excavated and repaired before the pipeline is completed. This occurred during the last week of October on section 8 of the pipeline, between Kilometers 610 and 613.
  2. Between 585 and 588 kilometers of the pipeline, we found a section of pipe that had been dug out, so we damaged the coating at the joints by chipping and sanding it off in less visible places. This coating is needed to protect the pipe from corrosion and rust. We did this in early November. We liked this approach because the damage is not visible, but can still have a significant long-term structural impact if corrosion and rust show up, so it will need to be fixed.

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Grand Est,France : sabotage of an EHV pylon, some technical advice

Communique #2: Sabotage of an extra-high voltage pylon in France/

Grand Est

Indymedia Lille, February 12, 2023

In December 2022, in solidarity with the hunger-striking prisoner Alfredo Cospito, we sabotaged an EHV pylon and partially removed its bolts (https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2022/12/27/france-grand-est-attack-against-nuclear-infrastructure-in-solidarity-with-alfredo-cospito/). The sabotage of a high voltage line is not without risk and, even if it is done without error, there is always some risk. However, we found this risk acceptable and the action entertaining. Since direct action is always an attempt to motivate and inspire other contexts, we had already announced our intention to give some technical advice:

Choice of target: When choosing the mast, make sure that the insulators (the ceramic coils to which the cables are attached) are vertical! A diagonal or horizontal position indicates a tensile load in the corresponding direction. Choose the most isolated location possible. Make sure that there are no people between the object and the nearest pylons (e.g. busy roads crossing the line). Choose your escape route so that it cannot be blocked by the falling line.

Risk assessment/mitigation: It happens occasionally (although rarely) that electricity pylons bend or fall, even without sabotage. This can happen, for example, due to storms, the weight of snow, or simply material fatigue or inadequate maintenance. The result is a risk of premature collapse of the mast. This risk increases with each screw loosened and exponentially with each foot completely unscrewed. It is up to you, as a group, to decide how far you want to go. In all cases, plan the action taking into account the possibility of the mast falling while you are still there. Both at the base of the mast and where the cables touch the ground, there is a potentially lethal amounts of electricity on the ground within a certain radius! Move away from the object as quickly as possible in the opposite direction of the fall. Ensure that your body remains in contact with the ground at all times (grounding), walking with small “shuffling” steps. Make sure that the weather conditions are favorable. Do not perform this action in strong wind, heavy rain or snowfall!

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Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) France : sabotage the welcoming of the Minister of Labor

Toulouse (Haute-Garonne): sabotage the welcoming of the Minister of Labor

via:sansnom.
Welcoming committee for the minister of labor
IAATA, February 11, 2023

sabotage of the railway north of Toulouse

The Minister of Labor was invited to the headquarters of the newspaper La Dépêche on Thursday to promote the pension reform and defend his vision of the world.

As a welcoming committee worthy of the name, the railway line north of Toulouse was sabotaged. The train embodies the supply tool of the economic system in labor and commodities. A system that works Just In Time can be disrupted by attacking these veins.

In solidarity with all those who refuse this world, who are in the streets these last weeks, who fight for a better life

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Hanover (Germany): Siemens under fire

via: sansnom

Hanover : Siemens under fire

de.indymedia, February 10, 2023

On the night of February 7-8, 2023, we placed incendiary devices with delays under four vehicles of the company Siemens in Hannover/Laatzen. Unfortunately, not all of them burned, but we know for sure that at least one of them was completely destroyed.

From Lützerath to Yucatán, Siemens is involved in every sordid affair!

Digitization, automation, data and signal transmission, energy generation, electrification, extension of the railway network – Siemens provides the infrastructural basis for capitalist and neo-colonial exploitation worldwide.
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RUMOER #6 english/nederlands

We’re here again after this hot winter! Still a time of war, climate-struggle/destructivity/pessimism/idealism, repression, technology and an online mirror-world, farmers, arsonists and uprisings trough out the world.

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Berlin (Germany): arson the police van

Berlin: arson the police van

via: sansnom
Translated from German via Sozialer Zorn, January 28, 2023
(from Berliner Zeitung)

Unknown individuals set fire to a police vehicle. At about 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 28, a passerby discovered the flames in a parking lot on Rudolstädter Straße in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin. Police Station #26 was nearby, and their vehicles were parked there.

A police spokesman said that “firefighters extinguished the flames inside the van, whose side window had been broken,” preventing the flames from spreading to other adjacent police vehicles. The State Security (Staatsschutz) was in charge of the investigation.