Climate activists block entrances to large HS2 tunnelling site
XR brand the high speed rail project one ‘of greed not need’
An anti-HS2 sign on a farmers gate in the Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire
CLIMATE activists blocked all entrances to a large-scale HS2 tunnelling site today morning, grinding construction work to a halt.
Extinction Rebellion (XR) protesters erected bamboo structures to prevent workers accessing the 135-acre tunnelling site in West Hyde, Hertfordshire.
Two giant tunnelling machines measuring 170m in length, designed to burrow through the chalk and flint under the Chilterns – an area of outstanding natural beauty – will be launched early next year at the site.
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