More Arrests of Anti Fracking Activists in East Yorkshire

24th May Fol­low­ing on from the arrests of two local res­i­dents last week, a fur­ther arrest has been made of an activist play­ing music in Bev­er­ley (near Hull.) A flotil­la of Police, from the Hum­ber­side divi­sion, armed with taz­ers and dogs, swooped into Bev­er­ley, town cen­tre, as the busker and anti frack­ing activist known as Daznez was play­ing and singing music in Bev­er­ley town cen­tre. Local peo­ple who were watch­ing and lis­ten­ing to the musi­cian remarked at the heavy hand­ed­ness of the arrest as at least six police per­son­nel and their dogs took the musi­cian into cus­tody. The musi­cian has been tak­en to Clough Road, Police Sta­tion in Hull but has not yet been charged with an offence.
Last week two res­i­dents of the Bev­er­ley area, were arrest­ed whilst med­i­tat­ing, at an ear­marked Frack site, at the Rath­lin Ener­gy, Craw­ber­ry Hill, drilling site. Hus­band and Wife, John and Valerie Majer, were charged with caus­ing intim­i­da­tion and annoy­ance con­trary to sec­tion 241 of the Trade Union and Labour Rela­tions Act.
Rath­lin Ener­gy has said it has no plans to frack in the area, although two per­mits have been grant­ed to them for work to be car­ried out.
There have pre­vi­ous­ly been charges of cor­rup­tion, abuse of pow­er and privledge, placed upon Rath­lin Ener­gy by activists. This fol­lows after, ex North­ern Ire­land Envi­ron­ment Min­is­ter Der­mot Nes­bitt, who is now a direc­tor of Rath­lin Ener­gy suc­ceed­ed in obtain­ing the per­mits from the very same gov­ern­ment agency, who were once account­able to him, to drill and extract waste, includ­ing the extrac­tion of radioac­tive waste, at the Craw­ber­ry Hill site and anoth­er, near­by site at West New­ton near Ald­bor­ough. (Updates to fol­low.)
East York­shire Anti Frack