Lorry surfing protest at Forton motorway services on the M6, 26 March 2018. Photo: Ros Wills
A woman who spent 24 hours on a lorry delivering equipment to Cuadrilla’s shale gas site near Blackpool came down at about 10pm last night.
The protest began on Sunday evening when the lorry was parked at motorway services at Forton on the A6 between Lancaster and Preston.
The woman, who spent a night and the following day on the cab roof, said she was “a bit cold” and “sorry to come down”.
Another woman, who locked herself to equipment on the lorry’s trailer, came off at about 1pm yesterday afternoon.
Both were arrested and charged under the Trades Union and Labour Relations Consolidation Act. They are due to appear at Preston Magistrates Court on 25 April 2018.
Lock-on protest
Lock-on protest at Great Yarmouth, 26 March 2018. Photo: Still from video by Scott Breen
Lock-on protest at Great Yarmouth, 26 March 2018. Photo: Still from video by Morgan Marshall
Two women locked themselves together outside the depot of the haulage company, AMPS, in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk yesterday.
The action blocked the entrance and prevented lorries leaving and entering the depot.
Anti-fracking campaigners said they believed the company was transporting equipment to Cuadrilla’s shale gas site at Preston New Road, near Blackpool.
The protest ended when the woman, whose arms were locked inside a tube, walked away from the entrance.
DrillOrDrop understands they were not arrested.
Updated 29/3/2018 to correct duration of the protest from 12 to 24 hours in the headline and first paragraph
Categories: protest
DRILL OR DROP? 
12hours, I thought it was over 24hours?
All grist to UKOGs mill.
If an action is illegal there are already laws to deal with it, which in this case they will. There’s no place and no need for private companies to issue blanket injunctions aimed at neutering all peaceful protest apart from waving a banner, and even that would be limited to places the company deems permissible. Only an industry with no respect for the fact that there is a right to peaceful protest in this country would contemplate using these draconian measures. It wouldn’t stop at the oil and gas industry. Be careful what you wish for.
This is not peaceful protest…
How Come that Lancashire Police are always keen to use the anti Trade Union laws set up by Margret Thatcher aimed at secondary picketing by large numbers of miners defending their destroyed jobs way back in the 1980’s.. It is also quite odd that Lancashire Police & Crime Commissioner a trade union member himself is happy with this action –. Time the police took a more relaxed attitude to decent thinking members of the public trying their best in a peaceful way to protest at an industry that Lancashire has rejected. — Time too that Commissioner Clive Grunshaw takes a firmer attitude to the wishes of the public rather than Quadrilla.and passes on to the Chief Inspector that his force is looking biased in favour of this combany..
‘How Come that Lancashire Police are always keen to use the anti Trade Union laws set up by Margret Thatcher’ – because apathy has paralyzed the UK; time to make a change M.Martin; make the start: challenge it.
You’re using the Governments stance to reduce the coal industry with its immense CO2 emissions to fight your argument?
The two govt events are only related by the colour blue Kish, but you know that….
Oh yes there is Pauline. This type of action is aimed to intimidate contractors and to cost both them, and the end customer, money via delays. This has been referenced repeatedly by activists on DOD. The penalties to the activists, without injunctions, are small. With injunctions they are more significant. If you expect the operating companies to sit back and not react then you will be disappointed, but the wider public will appreciate how this situation has been arrived at.
‘If you expect the operating companies to sit back and not react’ – errr, I think there has been a reaction as suppliers and contractors, particularly those duped by Cuadrilla, have withdrawn their services.
You missed the point as always; the protests will continue, despite these little hurdles, after all, as oft said in jest ‘it’s only money’; planet is more important than a pieces of plastic coated paper you cannot eat…..
The more you push, the harder they push back. They are not going away until it’s finished, which is not that long off; bless.
The 84% ‘wider public’ know this.
Sher please let’s all address the points. ie your points about plastic paper, money no object to you etc etc
In 2015 Blackpool had 13.4% of households in fuel poverty and I am sure it has risen since then.
Stop the sound bites please…
84%???
Again, sigh – good job I am patient….
Your stats talk about a government category that is in actual fact ‘poverty which includes the inability to pay for energy’ due to inflated prices due to profiteers, investors wanting returns for bugger all squared and the govt cut on top…..
This means a group of people who by their own or external means cannot afford the basics of life including energy. After researching this I find that most poor families forgo fuel before food for themselves and family when they do not have enough money for both. This then puts them in the fictitious category of ‘fuel poverty’. Am sure anyone with common sense would see the cause and the subsequent effect.
It is a favourite of pro-frackers to use this term, but is is a misnomer, and claims that shale gas would be the saviour of these individuals has been dismissed over and over again.
So I suggest you take your own advice and cut out your own industry ‘recording’ and appreciate that you have a job and a home, food and a chance to make a difference if you could get you head out of your a%s£ – get your hand in your pocket or give up some time, those people down the road from you might just overcome their pride and accept your genuine help….
84% – look it up; maybe Martin could enlighten you
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/185448/global-carbon-emissions-could-following-uks/
Two thirds are a majority.
I’m sure the protests will continue-to have little impact. Some companies will decide where activists deliberately break the law the consequences will be increased. Cuadrilla could take further action if they feel it necessary. I wonder why they haven’t so far-ermm because they have been able to get along with such novel mechanisms as getting up early! Pretty pathetic to observe such a strategy blind-sided the antis. So, when the gas emerges and the antis jump up and down in horror and insist it was an earthquake the public will be confused? Don’t think so. Shame the Beast from the East will be fresh in their memories.
‘Little impact’? Why do you think the frackers are using foreign-owned suppliers / hauliers? 😂
84% is a landslide…..
just for you MC; you can rest easy now
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/uk-weather-beast-from-the-east-not-coming-back-over-easter-bank-holiday-weekend-after-all-says-met-office/ar-BBKKUup?li=BBoPWjQ
https://utilityweek.co.uk/around-750-wind-turbines-dismantled-five-years/
Onshore wind turbines, without subsidies or a guaranteed fixed price for electricity don’t seem to do too well…
Even on a windy day like today they are only generating 15% of our electricity.
If we want to continue with wind turbines we will have to increase the green tax on energy bills and live with the fact we will push thousands more into fuel poverty…
Best sited onshore wind power is the cheapest form of electrical generation
‘Arup found that the technology has become so cheap that developers could deliver turbines for a guaranteed price of power so low that it would be effectively subsidy-free in terms of the impact on household energy bills’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/23/drop-in-wind-energy-costs-adds-pressure-for-government-rethink.
Meanwhile offshore wind industry thinking ahead
https://www.gerenewableenergy.com/wind-energy/turbines/haliade-x-offshore-turbine.
Very complimentary for proven commercial cost saving batteries.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/how-teslas-big-battery-is-bringing-australias-gas-cartel-to-heel
Uk shale. A mug punters nightmare with zero future.
Why oh why do I have to read such baloney…. oh I know… cause we have such a weak leader at the helm of the country. The sooner she is removed the sooner we can get a proper Conservative to put the lefties back in their place.
Can’t believe how quickly our country’s reputation is being weakened by a vocal minority that can be found at a grass verge, on top of lorries, walking down the highway or on social media (usually with odd profile pics or maybe that’s just their selfie game!).
I’ve given up even reading their replies or posts as it’s the same tune… renewables that magically appear from thin air and a utopia whereby everyone is equal and peace and unicorns are in abundance.
Wonder if their gameplan to deal with someone like Putin would be to invite him over for tea and biccies or…..are these anti type folk the same nutters that think the Salisbury event has something ‘fishy’ about it 🤔.
You are so funny GBK…Russian oil and gas? No, sorry, done that one. Nothing to see here, move along……
http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/193843/falcon-oil-gas-plc-final-scientific-report-says-australian-fracking-risks-can-be-managed-193843.html
‘Managed’ Yes, by bribing and gagging the victims of widespread fossil fuel pollution.
It needs to be noted that for most of the time she was sat on an empty wagon as the cargo had been removed and delivered to site. These companies tend to work on an eight day lead time which I guess answers the question about why cuadrilla do not appear overly concerned.
mikekelly633. “Cuadrilla do not appear overly concerned.” Cuadrilla were concerned enough to transfer the load onto another truck. A truck which entered the site so fast and recklessly that it almost killed both police and protectors, causing the police to remark that the driver ” fell short of the standard expected.” For a so called professional driver to risk both lives and his licence makes it appear that Cuadrilla were quite desperate for that load.
The driver may have p*****d off enough with being held up for a few hours to lose his cool but that doesn’t mean that the protest had any significant effect on cuadrilla. The only people losing out in Lancashire are the elderly and vulnerable who’s services are being threatened because council funds are being spent on policing
‘The only people losing out in Lancashire are the elderly and vulnerable who’s services are being threatened because council funds are being spent on policing’ a very interesting point Mike, except the budgets are separate.
However, just a thought – who is going to meet the shortfall in contributions for care in later life when the value of the properties around PNR have plummeted? Cuadrilla perhaps? Certainly not LCC as they said no to this farce; the government aka the tax payer perhaps, from the taxes generated from the shale; oops forgot, that’s all going offshore to tax havens, silly me.