The shale gas company, Cuadrilla, said today many of the protests at its site near Blackpool were by a “small hard-core” of national activists and were neither peaceful nor lawful.
An indigenous leader who opposed the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock in the US urged anti-fracking campaigners in Lancashire today to “let go of their fears”.
The Green Party is calling on the shale gas company, Cuadrilla, to answer allegations of violence by security guards and staff against protesters at its site near Blackpool.
A 73-year-old woman joined her son and granddaughter in a blockade of Cuadrilla’s shale gas site near Blackpool this morning.
In this week’s update on protests about fracking and the onshore oil and gas industry: Cake at the Gate protest at UKOG’s Broadford Bridge site, West Sussex Lock-on protest at Cuadrilla’s shale gas site at Preston New Road Picket at Cuadrilla’s headquarters at Bamber Bridge Two campaigners climb onto […]
Lancashire Police confirmed today it was investigating a complaint that a security guard assaulted an anti-fracking protester outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site near Blackpool.
In this week’s update on protests about fracking and the onshore oil and gas industry: 3 councillors join 13-person lock-on outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site at Preston New Road Lancashire Police investigate assault complaint against a security guard Ongoing demonstration and blockade outside Marriott Drilling in Chesterfield Public rally […]
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Three women councillors from Lancashire are taking part in a lock-on protest against operations at Cuadrilla’s shale gas site near Blackpool.
Anti-fracking campaigners have been protesting this morning outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site near Blackpool and at a supplier of drilling equipment in Derbyshire.