Once again, the municipality has come up with a reason to remove us from Avgrunnsdalen. After nearly three months in Avgrunnsdalen, suddenly safety has become a concern for the municipality.
Here are some important points regarding fire safety:
- The fire department was willing to provide us with the equipment we needed to improve fire safety in the house, but the municipality refused.
- We have also contacted the fire department and are open to reaching an agreement to explore how we can improve fire safety together.
- The gate is open to the fire department but not to the police, the municipality, or Norconsult, which is conducting fieldwork.
- No one sleeps in the house anymore. The house has become a gathering place for opponents in the fight against Chemring Nobel and the war machine. Many of us have also made ourselves at home in the nooks and crannies of Avgrunnsdalen. That’s why different fire safety measures apply — something the municipality doesn’t seem to have realized.
Caring about safety means not building one of Europe’s largest explosives factories, which would put the local population, the forest, and the animals on Hurum at risk.
The fieldwork to be carried out by Norconsult between June and September this year also says a lot about where this is headed. The planning program is not yet complete, and Tofte has not yet been confirmed as the chosen location.
The planning program is supposed to establish the framework for the environmental impact assessment, which is not happening here. This process is being carried out on behalf of Forsvarsbygg, and we know what the outcome will be. We’ve seen it before, and nature and people are losing once again. The process is far from transparent, and drilling for environmental samples likely began on December 9, 2024, without a permit. Several witnesses have reported this.
We cannot trust this sham process, which keeps coming up with new
reasons to drive us out. We are not going to budge, and the fight
against the explosives factory has only just begun.
Knus Krigsmaskinen