Heathrow 2007
The 2007 camp (51°29′20″N 0°26′43″W / 51.48889°N 0.44528°W / 51.48889; -0.44528) ran from 14 to 21 August 2007 near London Heathrow Airport next to the village of Sipson on a disused sports ground owned by Imperial College London. Sipson would disappear from the map if the third runway at Heathrow was built. It was preceded by 'Our Place' arts weekend, a community arts project run by activists for local residents on 11 & 12 August at St Mary's Church Hall in Harmondsworth, another village which would be severely affected by the building of a third runway.
During the camp there were also protests by Plane Stupid, who were injuncted from protesting at Heathrow. On 13 August Plane Stupid activists boarded a barge transporting an Airbus A380 wing and on 16 August at London Biggin Hill Airport. 15 protesters chained themselves to its main gates and caused a "long queue of luxury cars waiting to get into the airport to build up".
On 19 August, the final day of the camp some 1000-1400 people took part in a 'Day of Action' and 200 people blockaded British Airports Authority HQ.
As protesters left on 20 August protests took place against two carbon offset companies, Climate Care and the Carbon Neutral Company on 20 August when campaigners dressed as "red herrings" protested at the offices in Oxford London, five people blocked the main gate at Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk, and a group invaded the London offices of Bridgepoint Capital, a private equity firm which is behind the expansion of Leeds-Bradford Airport, and a dozen protesters superglued their hands to entrance doors at BP's headquarters in central London. A total of 58 people were arrested.
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