SALFORD COUNCIL CIVIC CENTRE SHUT DOWN BY BARTON MOSS CAMPAIGNERS

     31st Jan­u­ary 2014

 

ANTI FRACKING CAMPAIGNERS SHUT SWINTON CIVIC CENTRE

Sal­ford Coun­cil’s Civic Cen­tre in Swin­ton was dra­mat­i­cal­ly shut down this after­noon as five anti-frack­ing cam­paign­ers from the Bar­ton Moss Pro­tec­tion Camp locked on in the recep­tion area.

The cam­paign­ers’ action was against Gov­ern­ment attempts to bribe Sal­ford Coun­cil to allow frack­ing in the city.

The front doors of Sal­ford Civic Cen­tre were closed this after­noon as five cam­paign­ers locked on in its recep­tion area to draw atten­tion to Con­Dem Gov­ern­ment attempts to bribe coun­cils to accept rates and com­mu­ni­ty pay­ments in exchange for allow­ing frack­ing in their cities.

Two anti-frack­ing cam­paign­ers from the Bar­ton Moss Com­mu­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Camp – site of explorato­ry drilling by frack­ing com­pa­ny IGas — super­glued them­selves to bars on the recep­tion win­dows, while two more attached them­selves to an arm tube, with anoth­er super­glued to them. It took the Greater Man­ches­ter Police Pro­test­er Removal Team around two hours to free them, while the Cen­tre remained closed to the pub­lic.

“The pro­tec­tors are here protest­ing against Sal­ford Coun­cil’s allowance of IGas to do explorato­ry drilling with a view to frack­ing at Bar­ton Moss” said Dar­ren Nes­bit, an observ­er from the Camp “We’ve had one of the pro­tec­tors, Boris, here on the lawn of the Civic Cen­tre for the last few weeks and we attend­ed the demo at the full Coun­cil meet­ing recent­ly.

“Every­thing we do is to, first­ly, raise aware­ness of frack­ing and the cor­rup­tion of the Gov­ern­ment and Coun­cil, and, sec­ond­ly, to let coun­cils know that this is what will hap­pen to every coun­cil in the coun­try if they allow frack­ing or any oth­er cor­po­rate rape of the earth which will affect their res­i­dents.”