Lorry surfing protest outside the IGas shale gas site at Tinker Lane, north Nottinghamshire. Photo: Tina English
Protests have closed the IGas shale gas exploration site at Tinker Lane in north Nottinghamshire.
Early today, two opponents of the operation to drill for shale gas at the site locked themselves in front of the gates and one person climbed on top of a tripod. Later this morning, two other protesters climbed on top of trucks delivering to Tinker Lane.
The A634 between Blyth and Barnby Moor, was closed. Nottinghamshire Police said three people had been arrested.
Tripod and lock-on protests outside the IGas shale gas site at Tinker Lane, north Nottinghamshire. Photo: Simone Lister
Tripod protest outside the IGas shale gas site at Tinker Lane, north Nottinghamshire. Photo: Tina English
Lorry surfing protest outside the IGas Tinker Lane shale gas site in north Nottinghamshire. Photo: Jon Mager
Lorry surfing protest outside the IGas shale gas site at Tinker Lane, north Nottinghamshire. Photo: Jon Mager
A statement by the protesters said:
“Early this morning a group of anti-fracking activists shut down the Nottinghamshire fracking site known as Tinker Lane.
“By occupying the entrance to the site they hope to highlight what they believe to be the growing body of evidence showing the negative environmental and health impacts of what is know as fracking.”
The police said in a statement this afternoon:
“Two men and a woman have been arrested in relation to obstructing access at the proposed fracking site in Tinker Lane.
“We were first called at 3.30am this morning (11 June). Officers remain at the site as protestors continue to block the entrance.
“The A634 is also closed in both directions between Torworth and Barnby Moor due to protestors climbing on top of moving vehicles.
“The 28, 54 and 56 year-old remain in custody.”
Reports from the scene at the time of writing say the lorry surfing protests are continuing. Nottinghamshire Fire Service is taking part in the operation to remove the protesters.
A spokesperson for IGas said:
“It is disappointing that a handful of activists would chose to unnecessarily disrupt the local community as they go about their daily business, including collecting children from the local school, by forcing the closure of a main road due to their actions.“
IGas is one of the few major onshore oil and gas companies not to have sought a High Court injunction to outlaw protests.
The Tinker Lane site was granted planning permission for shale gas exploration in March 2017. Fracking would require an additional planning application. Work began on the site in November 2017. DrillOrDrop site page for Tinker Lane
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DRILL OR DROP? 
And then there is an injunction.
Well done those supplying the evidence required.
Martin
The test must be how it pans out tomorrow.
A days delay to raise the awareness of those making the detour via Ranskill ( not that most knew why there was a detour ), is one thing. Days of action which prevent the drill rig getting to Site is another and may convince I Gas that it is a soft target due to an absence of an injunction.
We shall see no doubt.
Sorry hewes, but injunctions will not stop some people protesting; as this action demonstrates, you don’t need many.
This action was proportionate and was able to be dealt with adequately by the police.
Sherwulf
I am sure that protest will continue. I was just wondering if I Gas will go for an injunction.
The anti anti stance is getting sadder and sadder and sadder isn’t it?
All the anti anti operators and PR damage limitation teams have left now is making up their little tattle tale playground lists and waving their little brown book of “The Thoughts Of Sir Janus”
Whilst giving a blow by blow job……account of who said what for the last ditch desperation In Junk Shams?
No science, no sense, no rational justification, no social licence, no logic, no respect for peoples health or the land or the future of our children and the entire planet?
Just nasty little threats of legal assaults against people who dare to stand up to this invading fracking debacle because all other avenues of legal protest have been denied them by conniving government and greedy avaricious corporations?
Pathetic.
This will go down in history as the darkest of dark ages and the worst crisis point the human race has been threatened with since the last invasion attempt.
‘unnecessarily’ – just a matter of opinion; we are all allowed these for now?
Local people disrupted? What by a 2min detour to the next turning to get to Blyth? The impact to the community was minimal. A community that supports this action thankyou spokesperson for Igas.
Name and shame!
Location of residence?
On welfare handouts or not?
Do they use fossil fuel? ie drive a vehicle, use public transport, have a gas boiler, use any form of plastic etc
IQ test results?
It’s the same Ilk time and time again.
One from London, one from Brighton and the other three residents of the various protest camps.
You’ve just got to love these local campaigners….not.
As this is a UK wide protest movement and encompasses a world -wide protest against fossil fuel and climate change, think your comment just pitiful.
However the operators aren’t local are they?
Sheer hypocrisy!
And yet they crow and crow that only local opposition and protest is allowed?
By their obfuscation rules, the only people who should be given licences to frack and all the other avoidances of the term, are local people?
And local people would do nothing so suicidally insane?
Cognitive dissonance of mind boggling proportions isn’t it?
Crass avoidance and diversion and obfuscation, just a tactic, nothing more.
Lame and blame! Pathetic.
Can’t you think of anything more original GottaBeFibbing ? Maybe something you worked out for yourself rather than from some pro fracking chat room ?
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Can’t hide behind Prevent now can they?
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Indeed hewes62.
Like gesture politics, we now have gesture antis.
The smaller exploration companies seem to have a policy of being less confrontational and it doesn’t do them any good. INEOS have decided from the word go, based on seeing that, they will be proactive. Of course, the losers are the locals including those who want to have their concerns dealt with, and many who just want to get on with their lives..
I suspect it will not be long before there is such a large amount of data from other sites, that injunctions will be part of the initial process. The antis should embrace that-only the Precautionary Principle in action!
I will let you imagine martin, just what that gesture is?
Winston Churchill got about as close to it as he dared, we have no such reservations.
I did read that particular nonsense! (I keep making the same mistake, trusting that eventually the law of averages will kick in.)
It was nothing to do with Churchill. It was a gesture by English archers to the French.
You have a strange desire to turn commonly known facts to fiction.
For any readers who are as uninformed as you think they are-Giggle it.
Ooooh! Addressing me directly now are we? Not “dipping in” occasionally anymore eh? Not that I believed that anyway.
Sad martin, very sad,
Quite wrong i’m afraid martin, Churchill’s sign was “v” for victory, but he occasionally reversed it when addressing the invaders of Europe, which was the archers gesture.
But you are so desperate to contradict me you overlook that entirely.
You mistook what I said for the archers gesture, that is your mistake not mine,
I shall have fun reminding you of that old thing.
It works both ways old thing, and I really don’t care, both ways work for the fracking debacle.
Wanna put that on your little list?
Read and weep martin
Victory sign
Second World War: V for Victory campaign
Winston Churchill, British prime minister, giving a V sign in 1943.
On 14 January 1941, Victor de Laveleye, former Belgian Minister of Justice and director of the Belgian French-language broadcasts on the BBC (1940–44), suggested in a broadcast that Belgians use a V for victoire (French: “victory”) and vrijheid (Dutch: “freedom”) as a rallying emblem during the Second World War.
In the BBC broadcast, de Laveleye said that “the occupier, by seeing this sign, always the same, infinitely repeated, [would] understand that he is surrounded, encircled by an immense crowd of citizens eagerly awaiting his first moment of weakness, watching for his first failure.” Within weeks chalked up Vs began appearing on walls throughout Belgium, the Netherlands and Northern France.[34]
Buoyed by this success, the BBC started the “V for Victory” campaign, for which they put in charge the assistant news editor Douglas Ritchie posing as “Colonel Britton”. Ritchie suggested an audible V using its Morse code rhythm (three dots and a dash). As the rousing opening bars of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony had the same rhythm, the BBC used this as its call-sign in its foreign language programmes to occupied Europe for the rest of the war. The more musically educated also understood that it was the Fate motif “knocking on the door” of the Third Reich. (About this sound Listen to this call-sign. (help·info)).[34][35] The BBC also encouraged the use of the V gesture introduced by de Laveleye.[36]
By July 1941, the emblematic use of the letter V had spread through occupied Europe. On 19 July, Prime Minister Winston Churchill referred approvingly to the V for Victory campaign in a speech,[37] from which point he started using the V hand sign. Early on he sometimes gestured palm in (sometimes with a cigar between the fingers).[38] Later in the war, he used palm out.[39] After aides explained to the aristocratic Churchill what the palm in gesture meant to other classes, he made sure to use the appropriate sign.[25][40] Yet the double-entendre of the gesture might have contributed to its popularity, “for a simple twist of hand would have presented the dorsal side in a mocking snub to the common enemy”.[41] Other allied leaders used the sign as well.
The Germans could not remove all the signs, so adopted the V Sign as a German symbol, sometimes adding laurel leaves under it, painting their own V’s on walls, vehicles and adding a massive V on the Eiffel Tower.
In 1942, Aleister Crowley, a British occultist, claimed to have invented the usage of a V-sign in February 1941 as a magical foil to the Nazis’ use of the Swastika. He maintained that he passed this to friends at the BBC, and to the British Naval Intelligence Division through his connections in MI5, eventually gaining the approval of Winston Churchill. Crowley noted that his 1913 publication Magick featured a V-sign and a swastika on the same plate.[42]
Resistance graffiti on a Norwegian road, depicting the V-sign together with the initials of King Haakon VII.
A German V-sign and slogan on the Palais Bourbon in occupied Paris. The banner beneath the “V” reads “Germany is Victorious on All Fronts”.
The V-sign (and its morse code equivalent) incorporated on an American propaganda poster for the War Production Board, 1942 or 1943.
Still nonsense. Keep making it up-like the red diesel fiction.
Or, “alternatively” don’t post about things you don’t know about. Others will.
But you will, because you think anything works to excite.
I shall revert to my previous filter, and avoid the excitement.
Ooohh! Desperate!
Fail!
Not even close as usual.
That little list is getting worn down to the spine, an attribute amongst frackers of which i see little or no evidence?
Never mind martin,you retire back behind your comfort black out frack out blinkers into the dying world of fracking fantasy, i will keep on reminding you that your fracking “buddies” don’t have the foggiest idea what they are talking about, no understanding of physics whatsoever, the frackers are just ignorantly (accent on the rant) desperate and it has failed dismally and utterly.
Too late, you blew your own cover and embarrassed yourself martin yet again, live with it.
Martin knows a lot….about nothing. Convenient friends, jobs, honeymoons; all in the script. Even the name is there to make you think he is a real person; don’t waste your time on this ‘toll bridge’.
Yes, you are right Sher, its fun to play with for a while, but ultimately its just a waste of space, time and energy, its only scroll bait really,
I like the “toll bridge” reference by the way, though i would probably spell it differently?
Oh dear Sherwulfe, you have no life experience to base your knowledge on? I thought you were older than that.
Sad. But, it is a good reference to the plight of the antis. Keep the narrative away from real life and move to fiction. Meanwhile, how many thousands of jobs to go at Tesla, announced yesterday, in a desperate bid to try and make the business “sustainable”? (Ironic-a sustainable based business which has problems with being financially sustainable. But, Tesla not alone in that.)
Never mind, just one week before the book is published. I’m sure you will be there grabbing a copy, trying to improve your knowledge. All proceeds to a worthwhile cause. Enjoy.
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I wonder if this comment attributed to MC was generated by A.I? Oh, whoops, sorry, not possible – A.I. includes ‘Intelligence’; bless
More like Antagonistic Inhumanity?