UK: Police make more arrests at wind turbine factory protest

Police made more arrests overnight outside a wind turbine factory where climate change activists are staging a protest in support of workers occupying the site.

Police said two men were detained close to the Vestas Wind Systems plant, on the Isle of Wight. Three people were arrested yesterday.

Around 25 workers are staging a sit-in as part of a campaign to save the factory from closure, with the loss of hundreds of jobs, next week.
Earlier this week, one of the workers occupying the factory, who gave his name as Michael, said it was “crazy” for the energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, to be making “statement after statement” about green energy but standing by as the factory closed down.

The latest arrests were of a 41-year-old man from London, who was detained on suspicion of criminal damage, and a 23-year-old man, who was arrested on suspicion of failing to comply with a condition for a public assembly.

Police said access to food and water inside the factory was a matter for the Vestas management and the demonstrators, adding that officers were not stopping food supplies from entering the site.

Guardian