Barton Moss giant wind turbine protest

The frack­ing test site at Bar­ton Moss has been block­ad­ed with a giant wind tur­bine blade!

Around fifty peo­ple arrived at 5.30 this morn­ing to leave this imag­i­na­tive ear­ly Christ­mas gift for frack­ing com­pa­ny IGas.

The Bar­ton Moss site, near Sal­ford in Greater Man­ches­ter, is the lat­est front­line in the bat­tle for clean ener­gy in the UK. IGas are try­ing to car­ry out test drilling to see if the site is suit­able for extract­ing coal bed methane and shale gas, despite strong oppo­si­tion from local res­i­dents and the com­mu­ni­ty pro­tec­tion camp that has been resist­ing the drilling since mid-Novem­ber. How­ev­er, the site’s only entrance is now com­plete­ly blocked by the 1.5 tonne blade, so there won’t be any drilling equip­ment head­ing in there for a while…

~Sher­borne G.
Bar­ton Moss Pro­tec­tion Camp.

http://northerngasgala.org.uk/ — for reg­u­lar updates, press release with ref­er­ences from today.

Livestream from action

Bar­ton Moss Pro­tec­tion Camp Bar­ton Moss Road, Just off A57 next to Air­port, Eccles M30 7RL

 

ADDRESS:
Bar­ton Moss Pro­tec­tion Camp Bar­ton Moss Road, Just off A57 next to Air­port, Eccles M30 7RL

LINKS:
BIFF ! (Britain & Ire­land Frack Free)
Bar­ton Moss Com­mu­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Camp

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