Fracking protesters blockade site where UK work due to restart

15.10.2018

Activists park at Preston New Road site near Blackpool hope to stop Cuadrilla operation Activists have blockaded a fracking site in Lancashire on the day operations were due to begin for the first time for seven years in the UK.A group from Reclaim the Power used a van to block the entrance to the site on Preston New Road near Blackpool at 4.30am on Monday. A scaffold on its roof carried a banner reading "Stop The Start. Don't Frack the Climate". Continue reading...

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