Campaigner superglues herself to iGas Salford site (& new Barton Moss events Calendar)

Fol­low­ing on from Mon­day, when a cam­paign­er locked him­self onto to a tanker that was attempt­ing to leave the IGas drilling site at Bar­ton Moss, today a cam­paign­er dressed as Where’s Wal­ly super­glued her­self to the site’s gates to also delay lor­ries try­ing to leave in anoth­er imag­i­na­tive protest.

Ear­li­er, ten trucks were delayed by over an hour try­ing to get into the site as cam­paign­ers walked slow­ly in front of them doing the ‘Sal­ford Shuf­fle’. Greater Man­ches­ter Police arrest­ed three peo­ple ‘on sus­pi­cion of obstruct­ing a high­way’.

Sophie Bax­ter from Frack Free Greater Man­ches­ter said: “I ful­ly sup­port the peo­ple down there who have giv­en up every­thing to help pro­tect our com­mu­ni­ty against cor­po­rate inter­ests. IGas, the Gov­ern­ment and the local coun­cil con­tin­ue to under­es­ti­mate the strong pub­lic opin­ion against frack­ing.

“The police were very aggres­sive towards peo­ple this morn­ing, all of the arrests were need­less” she added “We will not tol­er­ate this type of aggres­sion from a police force that is meant to be here to pro­tect the pub­lic and are cur­rent­ly seek­ing legal advice to take this fur­ther.”

Those who have set up camp at Bar­ton Moss and those who attend the now dai­ly protests have called on more peo­ple from Greater Man­ches­ter and Sal­ford to go down to the site and show sup­port.