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  • Stop HS2 campaigners take part in a March For Water protest walk from Hillingdon Civic Centre to Harefield Moor to highlight the risk of contamination to the public drinking water supply from drilling into the chalk aquifer in the Colne Valley for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 5th February 2022 in Uxbridge, United Kingdom. A viaduct requiring 292 piles driven into the aquifer, a natural water filtration system, is currently being constructed to carry HS2 across lakes and watercourses in the Colne Valley Regional Park and campaigners have called on Hillingdon Council to take action to protect the local environment.
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  • Stop HS2 campaigner Sarah Green protests outside Hillingdon Civic Centre to highlight the risk of contamination to the public drinking water supply from drilling into the chalk aquifer in the Colne Valley for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 5th February 2022 in Uxbridge, United Kingdom. A viaduct requiring 292 piles driven into the aquifer, a natural water filtration system, is currently being constructed to carry HS2 across lakes and watercourses in the Colne Valley Regional Park and campaigners have called on Hillingdon Council to take action to protect the local environment.
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  • Dan Hooper, better known as roads protester Swampy during the 1990s, occupies a tripod positioned in a misty river Colne in order to try to delay bridge building works in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link on 7th December 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to resist the controversial £106bn rail project from a series of protest camps based along its initial route between London and Birmingham.
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  • HS2 workers observe an anti-HS2 activist who had occupied a trailer transporting wood chip in order to try to prevent or delay tree felling alongside the Fosse Way in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link on 24th August 2020 in Offchurch, United Kingdom. The controversial HS2 infrastructure project is currently expected to cost £106bn and will destroy or significantly impact many irreplaceable natural habitats, including 108 ancient woodlands.
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  • Activists from HS2 Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion UK pass a gate to a HS2 construction site as they take part in a ‘Rebel Trail’ hike along the route of the HS2 high-speed rail link on 26th June 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. The activists, who departed from Birmingham on 20th June and will arrive outside Parliament in London on 27th June, are protesting against the environmental impact of the high-speed rail link and questioning the viability of the £100bn+ project.
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  • Security guards working on behalf of HS2 forcibly remove environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion from the road in front of a gate providing access to a site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 12 September 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to try to prevent or delay works on the controversial £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in the Colne Valley where thousands of trees have already been felled.
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  • A sign indicates a gate to a construction site in the Colne Valley for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 26th June 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Extensive preparatory works for the HS2 project continue in the Colne Valley in spite of ongoing stubborn resistance from environmental campaigners seeking to protect woodland and wetland habitats in the area.
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  • Metropolitan Police officers ask activists from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, to leave the road outside the Department for Transport during a protest on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside the building and sprayed fake blood around the entrance during a protest which coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
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  • Environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion stand holding a banner to block a gate providing access to a site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 12 September 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to try to prevent or delay works on the controversial £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in the Colne Valley where thousands of trees have already been felled.
    MK-20200912-HS2-Harvil-Road-roadbloc...jpg
  • Graffiti reading ‘HS2 Is State Violence’ sprayed on boards around a construction site for the HS2 high-speed rail link in the Colne Valley is pictured on 11 September 2020 in Denham Green, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to try to prevent or delay works on the controversial £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link from a series of protection camps based along the route of the line between London and Birmingham.
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  • Activists from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, are pictured glued to the doors of the Department for Transport during a protest on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside the building and sprayed fake blood around the entrance during a protest which coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
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  • Recent paint markings on trees and a perimeter intruder detection system close to a badger sett in Crackley Woods are pictured on 24th August 2020 in Kenilworth, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to protest against and attempt to prevent or delay works in connection with the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link from camps such as the Crackley Woods Protection Camp along the Phase One route from Euston to north of Birmingham.
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  • Crackley Woods Protection Camp is pictured alongside Crackley Woods on 24th August 2020 in Kenilworth, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to protest against and attempt to prevent or delay works in connection with the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link from a series of camps along the Phase One route from Euston to north of Birmingham.
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  • Security guards working on behalf of HS2 forcibly remove environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion from the road in front of a gate providing access to a site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 12 September 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to try to prevent or delay works on the controversial £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in the Colne Valley where thousands of trees have already been felled.
    MK-20200912-HS2-Harvil-Road-roadbloc...jpg
  • Activists from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, march past the offices of HS2 with the handmade Boris the Bank Engine to a protest rally in Parliament Square on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The rally, and a later protest action at the Department of Transport during which activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside and sprayed fake blood around the entrance, coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
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  • A sign placed by activists from HS2 Rebellion in Colne Valley Park indicates the path to the Denham protection camp on 26th June 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Activists from HS2 Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion UK are taking part in a ‘Rebel Trail’ hike along the route of the HS2 high-speed rail link in protest against its environmental impact and to question the viability of the £100bn+ project.
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  • Environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion stand with a banner in front of a gate providing access to a site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 12 September 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to try to prevent or delay works on the controversial £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in the Colne Valley where thousands of trees have already been felled.
    MK-20200912-HS2-Harvil-Road-roadbloc...jpg
  • Metropolitan Police officers stand over fake blood sprayed around the entrance to the Department for Transport by activists from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, during a protest on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside the building and sprayed fake blood around the entrance during a protest which coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
    MK-20200904-HS2-Rebellion-Anti-HS2-P...jpg
  • Activists from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, march through Trafalgar Square with the handmade Boris the Bank Engine to a protest rally in Parliament Square on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The rally, and a later protest action at the Department of Transport during which activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside and sprayed fake blood around the entrance, coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
    MK-20200904-HS2-Rebellion-Anti-HS2-P...jpg
  • Banners laid out in the street by supporters of seven environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion attending a hearing at High Wycombe Magistrates Court are pictured on 10th August 2020 in High Wycombe, United Kingdom. The activists, who are predominantly teenage and who are opposed to the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link, had been arrested while standing on a bridge on a public footpath in Denham Country Park by police officers using the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act.
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  • An anti-HS2 banner is displayed at Harvil Road protection camp opposite a construction site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 29th July 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Environmental activists based at a series of such camps have been attempting to disrupt the felling of many thousands of trees in the Colne Valley for the high-speed rail project.
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  • Dan Hooper, better known as roads protester Swampy during the 1990s, occupies a tripod positioned in the river Colne in order to try to delay bridge building works in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link on 7 December 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to resist the controversial £106bn rail project from a series of protest camps based along its initial route between London and Birmingham.
    MK-20201207-HS2-Denham-Tripod-Bridge...jpg
  • An HS2 security guard is taken away on a river boat after he removed an item belonging to an activist during tree felling works alongside HOAC lake in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link on 21 September 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to try to prevent or delay works for the controversial £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link on environmental and cost grounds from a series of protection camps based along the route of the line between London and Birmingham.
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  • Activists from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, march past HS2 workers with the handmade Boris the Bank Engine to a protest rally in Parliament Square on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The rally, and a later protest action at the Department of Transport during which activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside and sprayed fake blood around the entrance, coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
    MK-20200904-HS2-Rebellion-Anti-HS2-P...jpg
  • A banner hung from trees close to Denham Ford Protection Camp by anti-HS2 activists is pictured on 21 September 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Activists opposed to the HS2 high-speed rail link on environmental and cost grounds continue to try to prevent or delay works from a series of protection camps based along the route of the line between London and Birmingham.
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  • National Eviction Team enforcement agents monitor activists from HS2 Rebellion trying to prevent or delay tree cutting in conjunction with the HS2 high-speed rail link in Denham Country Park on 7 September 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to campaign and take direct action against the controversial £106bn project for which the construction phase was announced on 4th September from a series of protection camps based along the route of the line between London and Birmingham.
    MK-20200907-HS2-Rebellion-Denham-cam...jpg
  • Activists from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, march past HS2 workers with the handmade Boris the Bank Engine to a protest rally in Parliament Square on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The rally, and a later protest action at the Department of Transport during which activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside and sprayed fake blood around the entrance, coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
    MK-20200904-HS2-Rebellion-Anti-HS2-P...jpg
  • A banner draped over a railing by supporters of seven environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion attending a hearing at High Wycombe Magistrates Court is pictured on 10th August 2020 in High Wycombe, United Kingdom. The activists, who are predominantly teenage and who are opposed to the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link, had been arrested whilst standing on a bridge on a public footpath in Denham Country Park by police officers using the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act.
    MK-20200810-HS2-Rebellion-Wycombe-Ma...jpg
  • Hertfordshire Police arrest an environmental activist from HS2 Rebellion who, together with another activist, had used a lock-on arm tube to block a gate to the South Portal site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 14 September 2020 in West Hyde, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists blocked two gates to the same works site for the controversial £106bn rail line, one remaining closed for over six hours and another for over twelve hours.
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  • Anti-HS2 activists from HS2 Rebellion and Stop HS2 march with a handmade ‘Boris The Bank Engine’ train from Extinction Rebellion’s Back The Bill rally in Parliament Square. HS2 Rebellion activists are attending Extinction Rebellion’s September Rebellion protests in London to call on the government to cancel the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link on the grounds of its hugely detrimental environmental impact and its estimated £106bn cost.
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  • Banners laid out in the street by supporters of seven environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion attending a hearing at High Wycombe Magistrates Court are pictured on 10th August 2020 in High Wycombe, United Kingdom. The activists, who are predominantly teenage and who are opposed to the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link, had been arrested while standing on a bridge on a public footpath in Denham Country Park by police officers using the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act.
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  • A sign indicates a security-manned access point to a site for the HS2 Great Missenden Haul Road on 17th July 2020 in Great Missenden, United Kingdom. The Department for Transport approved the issuing of Notices to Proceed by HS2 Ltd to the four Main Works Civils Contractors MWCC working on the £106bn high-speed rail link project in April 2020.
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  • A High Court injunction notice is displayed on fencing at the site of a ventilation shaft for the Chiltern Tunnel on the HS2 high-speed rail link on 18th July 2020 in Chalfont St Giles, United Kingdom. The Department for Transport approved the issuing of Notices to Proceed by HS2 Ltd to the four Main Works Civils Contractors MWCC working on the £106bn rail project in April 2020.
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  • Hertfordshire Police arrest an environmental activist from HS2 Rebellion who, together with another activist, had used a lock-on arm tube to block a gate to the South Portal site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 14 September 2020 in West Hyde, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists blocked two gates to the same works site for the controversial £106bn rail line, one remaining closed for over six hours and another for over twelve hours.
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  • Police officers from Hampshire Police Marine Support Unit detain Swan, an environmental activist from HS2 Rebellion who had been seeking to protect an ancient alder tree from destruction during works for the HS2 high-speed rail link, after she fell from a line which had been cut from the tree during a multi-force policing operation on 24th July 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Officers from the Metropolitan Police, Thames Valley Police, City of London Police and Hampshire Police attended to ensure the removal of the tree by HS2 despite protests from activists.
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  • An area of a wildlife protection camp in ancient woodland at Jones’ Hill Wood containing tunnels dug out by bailiffs from the National Eviction Team (NET) is pictured on 5 October 2020 in Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom. The Jones’ Hill Wood camp, one of several protest camps set up by anti-HS2 activists along the route of the £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in order to resist the controversial infrastructure project, is currently being evicted by NET bailiffs working on behalf of HS2 Ltd.
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  • An activist from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, is pictured glued to the doors of the Department for Transport during a protest on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside the building and sprayed fake blood around the entrance during a protest which coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
    MK-20200904-HS2-Rebellion-Anti-HS2-P...jpg
  • An activist from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, attends a protest rally in Parliament Square on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The rally, and a later protest action at the Department of Transport during which activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside and sprayed fake blood around the entrance, coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
    MK-20200904-HS2-Rebellion-Anti-HS2-P...jpg
  • Environmental activists in period costume from groups opposed to the HS2 high-speed rail link restage a historical 1602 visit by Queen Elizabeth I to Dews Farm on 31st July 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. The activists tried to retrace the steps of Queen Elizabeth I from St Mary’s church to Dews Farm in order to pay their respects to Anne and Ron Ryall, 73 and 72, on the day of their eviction from Dews Farm by HS2 after having spent nine years and their life savings renovating their £1m dream home, but found their path blocked by HS2 fences and security guards.
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  • A tree surgeon working with the National Eviction Team pauses during the removal of an ancient alder tree as part of works for the HS2 high-speed rail link to contemplate a blue line from which environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion are suspended above the river Colne in an attempt to protect the tree on 24th July 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. A large security operation involving officers from the Metropolitan Police, Thames Valley Police, City of London Police and Hampshire Police as well as the National Eviction Team ensured the removal of the tree by HS2 despite the protests by activists.
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  • Anti-HS2 activists use a tripod to block one of several entrances to the Chiltern Tunnel South Portal site for the HS2 high-speed rail link for the entire day on 9 October 2020 in West Hyde, United Kingdom. The protest action, at the site from which HS2 Ltd intends to drill a 10-mile tunnel through the Chilterns, was intended to remind Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he committed to remove deforestation from supply chains and to provide legal protection for 30% of UK land for biodiversity by 2030 at the first UN Summit on Biodiversity on 30th September.
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  • An environmental activist in period costume opposed to the HS2 high-speed rail link restages a historical 1602 visit by Queen Elizabeth I to Dews Farm on 31st July 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Activists tried to retrace the steps of Queen Elizabeth I from St Mary’s church to Dews Farm in order to pay their respects to Anne and Ron Ryall, 73 and 72, on the day of their eviction from Dews Farm by HS2 after having spent nine years and their life savings renovating their £1m dream home, but found their path blocked by HS2 fences and security guards.
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  • An anti-HS2 sign is displayed outside a farm on 17th July 2020 in Great Missenden, United Kingdom. Local residents and environmental activists continue to campaign against the high-speed rail link, primarily on the grounds of its impact on the environment and cost.
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  • Thames Valley Police officers arrest one of two anti-HS2 activists who had occupied the roof of the cab of a HGV in order to block its passage to works for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 28 September 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Environmental activists continue to try to prevent or delay works on the controversial £106bn project for which the construction phase was announced on 4th September from a series of protection camps based along the route of the line between London and Birmingham.
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  • A Thames Valley Police officer speaks to an anti-HS2 activist secured with a large rope around his neck who is blocking a HGV used for works connected to the HS2 high-speed rail link on 28 September 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Environmental activists continue to try to prevent or delay works on the controversial £106bn project for which the construction phase was announced on 4th September from a series of protection camps based along the route of the line between London and Birmingham.
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  • Tree surgeons working with the National Eviction Team on behalf of HS2 Ltd fell a 200-year-old oak tree alongside the East West Rail route known locally as the ‘7 Sisters Oak’ as part of works connected to the HS2 high-speed rail link on 23 September 2020 in Steeple Claydon, United Kingdom. A small group of local people and anti-HS2 activists based at the nearby Poors Piece Conservation Project watched the felling of the tree, which was home to bats and other species, whilst monitored by a joint force of around fifty bailiffs, security guards and police officers from Thames Valley Police.
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  • Anti-HS2 activists survey trees recently felled in Denham Country Park by contractors working on behalf of HS2 Ltd on 21 September 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. The activists contend that the trees were felled in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link in an area of the park not indicated for felling on official maps supplied by HS2 Ltd.
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  • Hampshire Police Marine Support Unit officers and National Eviction Team enforcement agents monitor Swan, a female environmental activist from HS2 Rebellion sitting on a line above the river Colne secured to an ancient alder tree which she was seeking to protect from destruction, during works for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 24th July 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. A large security operation involving officers from the Metropolitan Police, Thames Valley Police, City of London Police and Hampshire Police as well as the National Eviction Team ensured the removal of the tree by HS2 despite protests by activists.
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  • An anti-HS2 tree protector hangs from the arm of a cherry picker whilst National Eviction Team bailiffs working on behalf of HS2 Ltd continue to dismantle his tree house at a wildlife protection camp in ancient woodland at Jones’ Hill Wood on 1 October 2020 in Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom. Around 40 environmental activists and local residents, some of whom living in makeshift tree houses 60 feet above the ground, were present during the evictions at Jones’ Hill Wood which had served as one of several protest camps set up along the route of the £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in order to resist the controversial infrastructure project.
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  • A banner regarding bat roosts is displayed on a fence by environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion who blocked two gates to the South Portal site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 14 September 2020 in West Hyde, United Kingdom.
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  • Environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion use lock-on arm tubes to block a gate to the South Portal site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 14 September 2020 in West Hyde, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists blocked two gates to the same works site for the controversial £106bn rail line, one remaining closed for over six hours and another for over twelve hours.
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  • Hertfordshire Police attend a protest by environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion who used a lock-on arm tube to block a gate to the South Portal site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 14 September 2020 in West Hyde, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists simultaneously blocked two gates to the same works site for the controversial £106bn rail line, one remaining closed for over six hours and another for over twelve hours.
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  • Tree protector ’Athena’ from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, addresses a protest rally in Parliament Square on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The rally, and a later protest action at the Department of Transport during which activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside and sprayed fake blood around the entrance, coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
    MK-20200904-HS2-Rebellion-Anti-HS2-P...jpg
  • Hertfordshire Police officers arrest an anti-HS2 activist who used a tripod to block one of several entrances to the Chiltern Tunnel South Portal site for the HS2 high-speed rail link for the entire day on 9 October 2020 in West Hyde, United Kingdom. The protest action, at the site from which HS2 Ltd intends to drill a 10-mile tunnel through the Chilterns, was intended to remind Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he committed to remove deforestation from supply chains and to provide legal protection for 30% of UK land for biodiversity by 2030 at the first UN Summit on Biodiversity on 30th September.
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  • HS2 Rebellion tree protectors climb a mature oak tree in Denham Country Park in order to try to prevent its felling as part of works for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 7 September 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to try to prevent or delay works on the controversial £106bn project for which the construction phase was announced on 4th September from a series of protection camps based along the route of the line between London and Birmingham.
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  • Anti-HS2 activists observe HS2 workers preparing to fell a mature oak tree after a fellow activist had occupied the tree alongside the Fosse Way in order to try to protect it from works in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link on 24th August 2020 in Offchurch, United Kingdom. The controversial HS2 infrastructure project is currently expected to cost £106bn and will destroy or significantly impact many irreplaceable natural habitats, including 108 ancient woodlands.
    MK-20200824-HS2-Fosse-Way-oak-tree-f...jpg
  • An anti-HS2 tree protector looks out from a makeshift tree house about 60 feet above ground during evictions by National Eviction Team bailiffs working on behalf of HS2 Ltd from a wildlife protection camp in the ancient woodland which inspired Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox at Jones’ Hill Wood on 1 October 2020 in Aylesbury Vale, United Kingdom. Around 40 environmental activists and local residents, some of whom in tree houses, were present during the evictions at Jones’ Hill Wood which had served as one of several protest camps set up along the route of the £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in order to resist the controversial infrastructure project.
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  • Enforcement agents from the National Eviction Team intervene to prevent environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion standing in the river Colne from disrupting the removal of an ancient alder tree as part of works for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 24th July 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. A large security operation involving officers from the Metropolitan Police, Thames Valley Police, City of London Police and Hampshire Police as well as the National Eviction Team ensured the removal of the tree by HS2 despite the protests by activists.
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  • An HS2 Rebellion activist is carried away by a fellow activist after being injured whilst National Eviction Team enforcement agents were trying to prevent direct action to interrupt tree cutting in conjunction with the HS2 high-speed rail link in Denham Country Park on 7 September 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to try to prevent or delay works on the controversial £106bn project for which the construction phase was announced on 4th September from a series of protection camps based along the route of the line between London and Birmingham.
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  • Activists from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, march through Trafalgar Square with the handmade Boris the Bank Engine to a protest rally in Parliament Square on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The rally, and a later protest action at the Department of Transport during which activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside and sprayed fake blood around the entrance, coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
    MK-20200904-HS2-Rebellion-Anti-HS2-P...jpg
  • Hertfordshire Police officers arrest anti-HS2 activists who blocked an entrance to the Chiltern Tunnel South Portal site for the HS2 high-speed rail link for the entire day on 9 October 2020 in West Hyde, United Kingdom. The protest action, at the site from which HS2 Ltd intends to drill a 10-mile tunnel through the Chilterns, was intended to remind Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he committed to remove deforestation from supply chains and to provide legal protection for 30% of UK land for biodiversity by 2030 at the first UN Summit on Biodiversity on 30th September.
    MK-20201009-HS2-Extinction-Is-Foreve...jpg
  • Security guards working on behalf of HS2 forcibly remove environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion from the road in front of a gate providing access to a site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 12 September 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to try to prevent or delay works on the controversial £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in the Colne Valley where thousands of trees have already been felled.
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  • An HS2 Rebellion tree protector moves across lines fixed between trees at Denham Protection Camp on 7 September 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to try to prevent or hinder works on the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link for which the start of the construction phase was announced on 4th September from a series of protection camps based along the route of the line between London and Birmingham.
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  • Extinction Rebellion’s Red Rebel Brigade attend a protest outside the Department for Transport by activists from HS2 Rebellion on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside the building and sprayed fake blood around the entrance during a protest which coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
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  • Metropolitan Police officers arrest an activist from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, after she sat in the road outside the Department for Transport during a protest on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside the building and sprayed fake blood around the entrance during a protest which coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
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  • Activists from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, march to a protest outside the Department for Transport on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside the building and sprayed fake blood around the entrance during a protest which coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
    MK-20200904-HS2-Rebellion-Anti-HS2-P...jpg
  • An HS2 Rebellion tree protector moves across lines fixed between trees at Denham Protection Camp on 7 September 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to try to prevent or hinder works on the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link for which the start of the construction phase was announced on 4th September from a series of protection camps based along the route of the line between London and Birmingham.
    MK-20200907-HS2-Rebellion-Denham-cam...jpg
  • Anti-HS2 activists occupy mature oak trees in order to try to prevent or delay tree felling alongside the Fosse Way in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link on 24th August 2020 in Offchurch, United Kingdom. The controversial HS2 infrastructure project is currently expected to cost £106bn and will destroy or significantly impact many irreplaceable natural habitats, including 108 ancient woodlands.
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  • Environmental activists in period costume from groups opposed to the HS2 high-speed rail link restage a historical 1602 visit by Queen Elizabeth I to Dews Farm on 31st July 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. The activists tried to retrace the steps of Queen Elizabeth I from St Mary’s church to Dews Farm in order to pay their respects to Anne and Ron Ryall, 73 and 72, on the day of their eviction from Dews Farm by HS2 after having spent nine years and their life savings renovating their £1m dream home, but found their path blocked by HS2 fences and security guards.
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  • Preparatory works in Savay Lake in the Colne Valley for the HS2 high-speed rail link are pictured on 16th February 2022 in Harefield, United Kingdom. The HS2 route will cross waterways and lakes in the Colne Valley Regional Park by means of the Colne Valley Viaduct which will become the UKs longest railway bridge.
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  • A large alder tree stump is seen alongside the river Colne on 29th July 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Only the stump remains from an ancient alder tree felled on 24th July as part of works for the HS2 high-speed rail link despite protests by environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion.
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  • A viaduct precast factory at the South Portal site for the Chiltern Tunnel section of the HS2 high-speed rail link is pictured on 31st January 2022 in West Hyde, United Kingdom. Two 2,000-tonne tunnel boring machines are being used to create the 10-mile Chiltern Tunnel beneath the Chiltern Hills which will be the longest tunnel on the HS2 route between London and the West Midlands.
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  • A police SBD security system notice is pictured close to preparatory works for the Grove Farm underbridge for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 9th February 2022 in Wendover, United Kingdom. HS2 will enter the Wendover Green tunnel, a 1185m cut and cover tunnel, alongside Bacombe Lane.
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  • Stop HS2 campaigners take part in a March For Water protest walk from Hillingdon Civic Centre to Harefield Moor to highlight the risk of contamination to the public drinking water supply from drilling into the chalk aquifer in the Colne Valley for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 5th February 2022 in Ickenham, United Kingdom. A viaduct requiring 292 piles driven into the aquifer, a natural water filtration system, is currently being constructed to carry HS2 across lakes and watercourses in the Colne Valley Regional Park and campaigners have called on Hillingdon Council to take action to protect the local environment.
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  • A vegetable garden at Poors Piece Conservation Project is pictured on 23 September 2020 in Steeple Claydon, United Kingdom. Poors Piece Conservation Project was established by anti-HS2 activists with the full support of the landowner Clive Higgins to assist him in trying to conserve a strip of land on his farm containing a remnant of ancient woodland known as Poors Piece and to work alongside the local communities of Steeple Claydon and Calvert to try to protect their local environments from destruction for the HS2 high-speed rail link by means of communication and protest.
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  • Environmental activists from groups opposed to the HS2 high-speed rail link hold a banner during the restating of a historical 1602 visit by Queen Elizabeth I to Dews Farm on 31st July 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. The activists tried to retrace the steps of Queen Elizabeth I from St Mary’s church to Dews Farm in order to pay their respects to Anne and Ron Ryall, 73 and 72, on the day of their eviction from Dews Farm by HS2 after having spent nine years and their life savings renovating their £1m dream home, but found their path blocked by HS2 fences and security guards.
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  • Notices posted by environmental activists from Stop HS2 are seen in a bird hide at Calvert Jubilee Nature Reserve on 27 July 2020 in Calvert, United Kingdom. On 22nd July, the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust BBOWT reported that it had been informed of HS2’s intention to take possession of part of Calvert Jubilee nature reserve, which is home to bittern, breeding tern and some of the UK’s rarest butterflies, on 28th July to undertake unspecified clearance works in connection with the high-speed rail link.
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  • Anti-HS2 activists hold a HS2 Chainsaw Massacre protest outside the Among The Trees exhibition at the Hayward Gallery on 30 October 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The protest, during which many activists were dressed as HS2 enforcement agents and workers, was intended to highlight both the daily environmental destruction being wrought for the controversial HS2 high-speed rail project and instances of violence and brutality by security guards and bailiffs working on behalf of HS2 Ltd.
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  • The exterior of Wendover Active Resistance Camp is pictured on 20th February 2021 in Wendover, United Kingdom. Activists opposed to HS2 continue to occupy a series of such wildlife protection camps along the Phase One route of the HS2 high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham.
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  • Anti-HS2 activists from HS2 Rebellion continue to occupy plane trees in Parliament Square on 3 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. HS2 Rebellion activists are attending Extinction Rebellion’s September Rebellion protests in London to call on the government to cancel the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link on the grounds of its hugely detrimental environmental impact and its estimated £106bn cost.
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  • Environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion use a lock-on arm tube to block a gate to the South Portal site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 14 September 2020 in West Hyde, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists blocked two gates to the same works site for the controversial £106bn rail line, one remaining closed for over six hours and another for over twelve hours.
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  • A Stop HS2 banner is pictured outside Harefield Marina on 16th February 2022 in Harefield, United Kingdom. The route for the HS2 high-speed rail link will cross waterways and lakes in the Colne Valley Regional Park by means of the Colne Valley Viaduct which will become the UKs longest railway bridge.
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  • Anti-HS2 activists from HS2 Rebellion and Stop HS2 march with a handmade ‘Boris The Bank Engine’ train from Buckingham Palace to a rally in Parliament Square on 1st September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. HS2 Rebellion activists are attending Extinction Rebellion’s September Rebellion protests in London to call on the government to cancel the controversial HS2 high-speed rail link on the grounds of its hugely detrimental environmental impact and its estimated £106bn cost.
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  • Stop HS2 campaigners take part in a March For Water protest walk from Hillingdon Civic Centre to Harefield Moor to highlight the risk of contamination to the public drinking water supply from drilling into the chalk aquifer in the Colne Valley for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 5th February 2022 in Ickenham, United Kingdom. A viaduct requiring 292 piles driven into the aquifer, a natural water filtration system, is currently being constructed to carry HS2 across lakes and watercourses in the Colne Valley Regional Park and campaigners have called on Hillingdon Council to take action to protect the local environment.
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  • Stop HS2 campaigners protest outside Hillingdon Civic Centre to highlight the risk of contamination to the public drinking water supply from drilling into the chalk aquifer in the Colne Valley for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 5th February 2022 in Uxbridge, United Kingdom. A viaduct requiring 292 piles driven into the aquifer, a natural water filtration system, is currently being constructed to carry HS2 across lakes and watercourses in the Colne Valley Regional Park and campaigners have called on Hillingdon Council to take action to protect the local environment.
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  • A boarded up residential property is pictured on Ellesborough Road on 9th February 2022 in Wendover, United Kingdom. A number of properties on Ellesborough Road will be demolished as part of preparations for the HS2 high-speed rail link.
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  • An anti-HS2 activist uses a tripod to block one of several entrances to the Chiltern Tunnel South Portal site for the HS2 high-speed rail link for the entire day on 9 October 2020 in West Hyde, United Kingdom. The protest action, at the site from which HS2 Ltd intends to drill a 10-mile tunnel through the Chilterns, was intended to remind Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he committed to remove deforestation from supply chains and to provide legal protection for 30% of UK land for biodiversity by 2030 at the first UN Summit on Biodiversity on 30th September.
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  • Metropolitan Police officers ask activists from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, to leave the road outside the Department for Transport during a protest on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside the building and sprayed fake blood around the entrance during a protest which coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
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  • Activists from HS2 Rebellion, an umbrella campaign group comprising longstanding campaigners against the HS2 high-speed rail link as well as Extinction Rebellion activists, march through Trafalgar Square with the handmade Boris the Bank Engine to a protest rally in Parliament Square on 4 September 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The rally, and a later protest action at the Department of Transport during which activists glued themselves to the doors and pavement outside and sprayed fake blood around the entrance, coincided with an announcement by HS2 Ltd that construction of the controversial £106bn high-speed rail link will now commence.
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  • A Stop HS2 campaigner takes part in outreach activities on the occasion of a HS2 Routewide Roadshow at Kings Cross Square on 5th August 2021 in London, United Kingdom. There have been increasing doubts regarding the viability of the northern section of the HS2 high-speed rail link since a recent report published by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority gave Phase 2b the lowest red rating, indicating that successful delivery of the scheme “appears to be unachievable”.
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  • Precision-engineered, fibre-reinforced tunnel segments are pictured at the South Portal site for the Chiltern tunnel section of the HS2 high-speed rail link on 13th May 2021 in West Hyde, United Kingdom. HS2 consortium Align today launched its first 2,000-tonne tunnel boring machine TBM, named Florence after Florence Nightingale, to begin drilling one of a pair of 10-mile tunnels under the Chilterns.
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  • Environmental activists protest opposite a construction site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 26th June 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. The activists, from HS2 Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion UK, are taking part in a ‘Rebel Trail’ hike along the route of the high-speed rail link from Birmingham to London in protest against its environmental impact and to question the viability of the £100bn+ project.
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  • A section of Stop HS2’s Wendover Active Resistance Camp in woodland threatened by the HS2 high-speed rail link project is pictured on 18th March 2021 in Wendover, United Kingdom. Activists have set up several such camps along the Phase One route of the £106bn rail link between London and Birmingham.
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  • An anti-HS2 activist swims in the Grand Union Canal to halt tree felling works alongside HOAC lake in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link on 21 September 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to try to prevent or delay works for the controversial £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link on environmental and cost grounds from a series of protection camps based along the route of the line between London and Birmingham.
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  • Anti-HS2 activists observe HS2 workers felling a mature oak tree alongside the Fosse Way after fellow activists had occupied three trees and a trailer being used to transport wood chip in order to try to protect the trees from works in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link on 24th August 2020 in Offchurch, United Kingdom. The controversial HS2 infrastructure project is currently expected to cost £106bn and will destroy or significantly impact many irreplaceable natural habitats, including 108 ancient woodlands.
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  • Anti-HS2 activists occupy mature oak trees in order to try to prevent or delay tree felling alongside the Fosse Way in connection with the HS2 high-speed rail link on 24th August 2020 in Offchurch, United Kingdom. The controversial HS2 infrastructure project is currently expected to cost £106bn and will destroy or significantly impact many irreplaceable natural habitats, including 108 ancient woodlands.
    MK-20200824-HS2-Fosse-Way-oak-tree-f...jpg
  • Activists from HS2 Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion UK take part in a ‘Rebel Trail’ hike along the route of the HS2 high-speed rail link on 26th June 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. The activists, who departed from Birmingham on 20th June and will arrive outside Parliament in London on 27th June, are protesting against the environmental impact of the high-speed rail link and questioning the viability of the £100bn+ project.
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  • Police officers from Hampshire Police Marine Support Unit and Thames Valley Police monitor Swan, an environmental activist from HS2 Rebellion sitting on a line above the river Colne seeking to protect an ancient alder tree on the far bank from destruction, as tree surgeons working with the National Eviction Team continue to cut the tree during works for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 24th July 2020 in Denham, United Kingdom. Officers from the Metropolitan Police, Thames Valley Police, City of London Police and Hampshire Police attended to ensure the removal of the tree by HS2 despite protests from activists.
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  • Security guards working on behalf of HS2 forcibly remove environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion from the road in front of a gate providing access to a site for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 12 September 2020 in Harefield, United Kingdom. Anti-HS2 activists continue to try to prevent or delay works on the controversial £106bn HS2 high-speed rail link in the Colne Valley where thousands of trees have already been felled.
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  • Stop HS2 activists occupy a mature oak tree in order to try to prevent it and two other oak trees from being felled to construct a temporary access road for the HS2 high-speed rail link on 26th April 2021 in Quainton, United Kingdom. Environmental activists continue to oppose the controversial HS2 infrastructure project from a series of protection camps along its Phase 1 route between London and Birmingham.
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