Category: protest

Police under scrutiny as officers remove campaigner from second tower at N Yorks fracking site

By Ruth Hayhurst on October 9, 2017 • ( 11 Comments )

In the past few minutes, police in North Yorkshire have removed an anti-fracking campaigner from an observation tower next to Third Energy’s fracking site at Kirby Misperton.

Businessman defies police warning with horn-honking convoy past fracking site

By Ruth Hayhurst on September 29, 2017 • ( 47 Comments )

A Lancashire businessman who had been threatened with arrest for sounding his car horn in support of anti-fracking protesters led a convoy of hooting motorists past Cuadrilla’s shale gas site this morning.