Climate campaigners plead not guilty to trespass at oil site
Two Extinction Rebellion activists have denied charges of aggravated trespass at the Horse Hill oil production site in Surrey.
Two Extinction Rebellion activists have denied charges of aggravated trespass at the Horse Hill oil production site in Surrey.
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Reports from the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey this morning say protesters breached security and got into the compound at dawn, preventing the start of work.
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A group of campaigners will argue at the High Court tomorrow (2/4/2020) that an oil company’s injunction against protest is “unlawful, unfair and breaches the rights to free speech”.
The fracking company, Cuadrilla, has breached rules on monitoring the flare at its Preston New Road shale gas site in Lancashire.
2019 saw a Conservative government withdraw its support from fracking and introduce a moratorium on the process.
The ruling has been delayed in an appeal by the first campaigners found guilty of breaching an injunction against anti-fracking protests.
A campaigner from North Yorkshire is seeking to raise £10,000 to take the oil and gas regulator to court over who pays for decommissioning.
Cuadrilla has received an official warning over failing to monitor groundwater properly at its Preston New Road fracking site.