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Hambach Forest is occupied again, but under eviction threat

Since the cli­mat- and reclaim the fields camp in ger­many, the Ham­bach For­est ist occu­pied again, by cli­mat activist. There are activists liv­ing at plat­tform­sin the trees since more than 2 weeks.

Since the cli­mat- and reclaim the fields camp in ger­many, the Ham­bach For­est ist occu­pied again, by cli­mat activist. There are activists liv­ing at plat­tform­sin the trees since more than 2 weeks. The Ham­bach For­est is one of the old­est for­est in mid­dle europe, but already more than 4/5 of it is destroyed for open cast min­ing. The open cast min­ing in the Rhein­land (between Colonge and Aachen) is the biggest cli­mat killer in all Europe. The for­est gets destroyed year by year, so that RWE the coal com­pa­ny (wich is the moth­er com­pa­ny of N‑Power) can open cast the land. Also big vil­lages get­ting destroyed for the open cast min­ing. Last year the for­est was occu­pied by cli­mat activist, the wohle spring and sum­mer, and got evict­ed in automne. The evic­tion was the longest evic­tion that hap­pened in ger­many, because of the tun­nel sys­tem (the only god sys­tem is a tun­nel sys­tem!). After the evic­tion activists squat­ted a mead­ow next to the Ham­bach For­est, wich is still occu­pied. In the end of august the cli­mat- and RTF Camp took place close to the Ham­bach For­est. With over 500 Par­tic­i­pants it was the biggest cli­mat camp since 5 years in ger­many. More than 200 peo­ple blocked the Ham­bach coal-rail for half an day. In the end of the cli­mat- andd RTF-Camp activists occu­pied the Ham­bach For­est again. Now it is occu­pied since more than 2 weeks. Police was there on mon­day to inspect the plat­tforms and blockad­ing-tools, and was not realy hap­py. In looks like the evic­tion might come the next days. But maybe they want to wait after the big elec­tions in ger­many this sun­day. So there might still be time to come over! See you in the for­est.

http://hambachforest.blogsport.de/

Here’s a video about the occu­pa­tion:http://vimeo.com/74042113

and about the coal trail block­ade: http://vimeo.com/73938171

and a video about the RTF-action: http://vimeo.com/73514620

 

Trial of anti-road protestor Emily Johns

11th Sep­tem­ber 2013 Tri­al of anti-road pro­tes­tor — and Combe Haven Defend­ers — Emi­ly Johns, arrest­ed dur­ing Oper­a­tion Dis­clo­sure in April: https://combeha

11th Sep­tem­ber 2013 Tri­al of anti-road pro­tes­tor — and Combe Haven Defend­ers — Emi­ly Johns, arrest­ed dur­ing Oper­a­tion Dis­clo­sure in April: https://combehavendefenders.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/st-leonards-woman-arrested-in-peaceful-search-for-secret-link-road-documents/

 

From 10am, West­min­ster Mag­is­trates Court, 181 Maryle­bone Road Lon­don Lon­don Eng­land NW1 5BR.

Fri­day 11 Octo­ber!  https://combehavendefenders.wordpress.com/save-combe-haven-events-calendar/

Sup­port­ers wel­come!

Balcombe frack-off latest

Day 48 (Tues 10th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (3:30pm): Pro­tec­tor cut off, arrest­ed and car­a­van moved. Come down and sup­port the com­mu­ni­ty.

Day 48 (Tues 10th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (3:30pm): Pro­tec­tor cut off, arrest­ed and car­a­van moved. Come down and sup­port the com­mu­ni­ty.

Update (2:00pm): Cuadrilla frack­ing truck blocked by Pro­tec­tor locked onto car­a­van in Bal­combe. Com­mu­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Camp is still going strong despite increased police harass­ment.

Update (12:45pm): Ambu­lance takes one Pro­tec­tor to hos­pi­tal with leg injury caused by Police vio­lence

Update (12:15pm): First frack­ing truck of day arrives and is being blocked by Pro­tec­tors.

Update (12:00pm): Com­mu­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Camp still hold­ing strong. Sit­u­a­tion pret­ty calm at moment. Lots of peo­ple here to sup­port Bal­combe but do come down to help if you can.

Update (11:00am): One of the three peo­ple arrest­ed for singing out­side Cuadrilla’s frack­ing site is a Bal­combe res­i­dent.

Update (10:30am): Police try­ing to intim­i­date camp but not here in large num­bers at present. Three arrests. More peo­ple would be good. Come down and sup­port the com­mu­ni­ty if you can.

Update (10am): The day has start­ed qui­et­ly. Despite media report to the con­trary the Coun­cil has no pow­ers to evict the camp and would need to go through a court process to try. Threats by the police to use a Sec­tion 14 CJPOA to evict the camp are clear­ly ille­gal (though obvi­ous­ly that is no guar­an­tee they won’t try) but the camp is hold­ing firm. Come down and sup­port the com­mu­ni­ty if you can.

Eviction of Ferrarisbos Forest Occupation Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium

groNoord logoAt 7am on Tues­day 3rd of Sep­tem­ber indi­vid­u­als occu­py­ing a wrong­ly zoned Far­raris for­est in Wilrijk were wok­en by the sound of chain­saws.

groNoord logoAt 7am on Tues­day 3rd of Sep­tem­ber indi­vid­u­als occu­py­ing a wrong­ly zoned Far­raris for­est in Wilrijk were wok­en by the sound of chain­saws. Break­ing the news to all that the for­est was being evict­ed. The first arrest of an indi­vid­ual in a tent on the ground, fol­lowed swift­ly: the tent was unzipped and the occu­pant ordered out although was not informed of their arrest or their rights. A cher­ry pick­er was used to gain access to the two plat­forms. One indi­vid­ual was lift­ed into the cher­ry pick­er and arrest­ed. Anoth­er indi­vid­ual was locked on, and a cut­ting team was used to break the lock on, remove the per­son and arrest them. A fourth indi­vid­ual, in a bed spi­ral (hang­ing tree­house) the tree was climbed and the indi­vid­ual removed and arrest­ed. The whole process took 2–3hrs, with­in 5hrs the for­est had been cut.

Local sup­port­ers and press were at first not allowed through to out­side the for­est. After some­time they man­aged to make their way through. Some locals chose to sar­cas­ti­cal­ly applaud as a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Essers went past. This result­ed in 3 indi­vid­u­als being admin­is­tra­tive­ly arrest­ed*.

Essers is the com­pa­ny respon­si­ble for the cut­ting of this for­est. Want­i­ng to build ware­house there, at present there is no known client for this ware­house as the pre­vi­ous prospec­tive ten­ant pulled out of the con­tract.
With­in Bel­gium there is zon­ing of land — land is des­ig­nat­ed for a par­tic­u­lar use. This is out of date and there­fore not accu­rate. Where for­est (as in this case) is zoned as indus­tri­al land it is very easy to acquire the nec­es­sary per­mits required to fell the for­est.
Fer­raris­bos for­est is land that in 1771 whilst Fer­raris was sur­vey­ing and map­ping Bel­gium was found to be for­est. This means the for­est that was felled 03/09/13 was over 250 years old.
Flan­ders (region with­in Bel­gium) has one of the low­est per­cent­ages of remain­ing wood­land in the EU with 8% of wood­lands remain­ing, 20% is con­sid­ered a “healthy” min­i­mum.
The for­est felled 03/09/13 was an impor­tant breed­ing habi­tat for over 20 bird species includ­ing wood­peck­ers. Also the for­est was the sum­mer home and hunt­ing ground to many bats pos­si­bly includ­ing endan­gered and pro­tect­ed species, and groups of red squir­rels. A Bel­gian Gov­ern­ment Agency advised that if felling was to take place it should hap­pen between the 15th of Sep­tem­ber and the 15th of Octo­ber or dur­ing the spring to ensure min­i­mal dis­rup­tion to the ani­mals liv­ing there.

There was a total of 7 arrests through­out the day, 4 of occu­piers of the for­est and 3 local sup­port­ers. All the arrests were admin­is­tra­tive*.
Of the occu­piers the first was quick­ly released due to hav­ing their pass­port with them. 2 were released after fin­ger­prints and pho­tos were tak­en. The one remain­ing occu­pi­er spoke no dutch and police refused to speak more than lim­it­ed Eng­lish to them, refused to pro­vide food and then informed them they would be tak­en to for­eign deten­tion at some point (between in 5 min­utes and 2 days). After becom­ing dis­tressed the indi­vid­ual gave their name and was then released after being dri­ven to a small street in Antwerp with no mon­ey, no idea of their loca­tion and no means of con­tact­ing any­one.

The 3 locals arrest­ed dur­ing the evic­tion of the for­est all chose to give their IDs result­ing in a short deten­tion for 2 of them. 1 was tak­en to prison, being told this would be for 12 months, after 5 hours they were released and put on tag for 3 months. It is unclear why and how this has hap­pened.

Fur­ther Action
Peo­ple from the Occu­pa­tion of the For­est have asked for sol­i­dar­i­ty demos out­side Bel­gian Embassies against the cut­ting of wrong­ly zoned forests.
Short­ly there will also be fur­ther infor­ma­tion for com­mu­ni­ca­tions block­ades.

*Admin­is­tra­tive Arrest is where an indi­vid­ual is arrest­ed for iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, this can last up to 12hrs if the indi­vid­ual choos­es to give their name or has ID on them. The arrest can last up to 24hrs if no name is giv­en.

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http://groenoord.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/kroniek-van-een-aangekondigde-ontbossing/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferraris_map

steungroep.groenoord@gmail.com
www.groenoord.be

28 Days Later / Balcombe anti-fracking protests update days 40–43

One Man Stop — 2nd September — Day 40

Update (14:45am): One pro­tec­tor locked on to frack­ing truck at the gate of Cuadrilla site in Bal­combe.

Update (11:45am): Two pro­tec­tors arrest­ed defend­ing Sus­sex from frack­ing.

One Man Stop — 2nd September — Day 40

Update (14:45am): One pro­tec­tor locked on to frack­ing truck at the gate of Cuadrilla site in Bal­combe.

Update (11:45am): Two pro­tec­tors arrest­ed defend­ing Sus­sex from frack­ing.

Update (9:30am): Police try­ing to force frack­ing truck through the com­mu­ni­ty pro­tec­tion block­ade. Come down and sup­port the com­mu­ni­ty.

Pro­tec­tor Locked On To Frack­ing Tanker Block­ing The Gate Of Cuadrilla Site In Bal­combe — Video

More info and pho­tos here

Day 41 (Tues 3rd) Of Community Fracking Blockade In Balcombe Sussex

Pro­tec­tor Locked On To Gate Of Cuadrilla Frack­ing Site In Bal­combe — Video

“I study envi­ron­men­tal sci­ence, I know this is wrong, I know this is mad and it’s just about mon­ey. I’ve cho­sen this action because nobody is lis­ten­ing. I’ve signed peti­tions, I’ve writ­ten to the EA. I’ve been here peace­ful­ly protest­ing for the last 6 weeks or longer. The gov­ern­men­t’s just not lis­ten­ing to its peo­ple. Once they start putting those chem­i­cals down into the water table they can­not get them out. I don’t want to leave this mess for the next gen­er­a­tion and I cer­tain­ly don’t want to say I did­n’t do any­thing to stop it.”

Day 43 — 5th September Of Community Fracking Blockade In Balcombe Sussex

Break­ing: #Bal­combe Com­mu­ni­ty Pro­tec­tion Camp now has a tri­pod block­ing the road. Some cars can pass… looks like no trucks for a while… #Great­Gas­Gala #Frack_OFF #Cuadrilla

Day 43 of the Com­mu­ni­ty Block­ade in Bal­combe. This morn­ing one Pro­tec­tor is block­ing frack­ing trucks from enter­ing the Cuadrilla’s site with a tri­pod. The camp in Bal­combe is fight the threat of thou­sands of frack­ing wells spread­ing across Sus­sex and the UK.

Videos

 

Help­ful Infor­ma­tion for groups con­sid­er­ing action

 

Action AWE Disarmament Camp & Blockade

25th August 2013

Direc­tions and details here.

Update — 2nd Sep­tem­ber — big block­ade

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25th August 2013

Direc­tions and details here.

Update — 2nd Sep­tem­ber — big block­ade

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More pho­tos and videos

Twen­ty-one pro­test­ers have been arrest­ed after blockad­ing a road lead­ing to a site which builds war­heads for nuclear sub­marines.

Anti-nuclear weapons pro­test­ers at Atom­ic Weapons Estab­lish­men­t’s (AWE) Burgh­field site oppose the renew­al or replace­ment of Tri­dent.

Burgh­field and AWE Alder­mas­ton pro­vide the war­heads for the sub­ma­rine-launched mis­sile sys­tem.

The activists were held on sus­pi­cion of obstruc­tion of a pub­lic high­way.

The UK’s exist­ing four bal­lis­tic mis­sile sub­marines are to be renewed from the late-2020s.

The gov­ern­men­t’s final deci­sion on whether to renew or replace the mis­sile sys­tem, the UK’s nuclear deter­rent, is due in 2016.

‘Pose a dan­ger’

Some of the pro­test­ers at AWE Burgh­field have come from Fin­land, Spain, Scot­land, Argenti­na and Japan to take part.

Police said there were about 20 tents as part of a camp near the West Berk­shire site.

Action AWE, which is co-ordi­nat­ing the protest with Tri­dent Ploughshares, said in a state­ment they were tak­ing part in “non-vio­lent direct action”.

They said nuclear weapons were “immoral, ille­gal under inter­na­tion­al law, dan­ger­ous to main­tain and pose a dan­ger to peace on Earth”.

Ch Insp Lind­sey Finch, deputy local polic­ing com­man­der for New­bury, said: “We will con­tin­ue to work with pro­test­ers to facil­i­tate peace­ful protest and ensure that any crim­i­nal activ­i­ty is dealt with pro­por­tion­ate­ly.”

A spokes­woman for the weapons site said: “AWE on-site secu­ri­ty, the Min­istry of Defence Police and Thames Val­ley Police are cur­rent­ly in atten­dance and will remain for the dura­tion of any protest action.”

Balcombe anti-fracking protests update days 25–39

Day 37 (Fri 30th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (10:30am): One pro­tec­tor arrest­ed defend­ing Sus­sex from frack­ing.

Update (9:30am): Police try­ing to force frack­ing truck through com­mu­ni­ty blokade.

 

Day 34 (Tues 26th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Day 37 (Fri 30th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (10:30am): One pro­tec­tor arrest­ed defend­ing Sus­sex from frack­ing.

Update (9:30am): Police try­ing to force frack­ing truck through com­mu­ni­ty blokade.

 

Day 34 (Tues 26th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (5:00pm): One pro­tec­tor arrest­ed today as police con­tin­ue to force frack­ing trucks through the block­ade for Cuadrilla.

Update (10:30am): First frack­ing truck of the day.

 

Day 28 (Wed 21st) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (3pm): All Pro­tec­tors who were in Craw­ley Mag­is­trates Court today have been giv­en bail con­di­tions that allow them to return to the camp.

Update (1pm): For­est camp evict­ed by police.

Update (12pm): Police are try­ing to ille­gal­ly evict (with­out a court order) the for­est camp (small­er camp in wood­land next to the Cuadrilla rig site, not main camp on grass verge) at Bal­combe. Come sup­port the com­mu­ni­ty!

 

Day 27 (Tue 20th) Of Com­mu­ni­ty Frack­ing Block­ade In Bal­combe Sus­sex

Update (10:40am): Anoth­er frack­ing truck being blocked.

Update (9:30am): Frack­ing truck forced through com­mu­ni­ty block­ade by police. One Pro­tec­tor arrest­ed.

 

Days 25/26 — the Reclaim the Pow­er block­ade and more updates/photos here

 

Photos & videos from Canton police station eviction resistance in Cardiff

Evic­tion of Can­ton Police Sta­tion in Cardiff on August 23rd.

Evic­tion of Can­ton Police Sta­tion in Cardiff on August 23rd.

Antagonistic Collective Against BoredomClick here for more pho­tos:
http://cardiff.squat.net/canton-police-station-eviction-resistanc

Bailiffs smash­ing in the door:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2HbkdTmNXU

Last squat­ter leav­ing the prop­er­ty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m‑1KYVfuzYk

Antag­nois­tic Col­lec­tive Against Bore­dom (ACAB)
cardiffsquatters@riseup.net
cardiff.squat.net

Swedish anti-mining protest camp against Beowulf Mining

Right now there is a bat­tle to save Sáp­mi (occu­pied by Swe­den) from more mines. Sáp­mi has already been exploit­ed and col­o­nized by the Swedish state and cor­po­ra­tions for gen­er­a­tions. Now an entire­ly new area is under attack from the min­ing indus­try, the forests, moun­tains and lakes west of Jokkmokk are threat­ened.

Since a month there is a block­ade against british Beowulf Mining´s test min­ing project in Gál­lok (swe: #kallak) going on. Activists have joined togeth­er with indige­nous Sami peo­ple to save the place from a big iron mine. The 29th of July the swedish police came and tore down the first block­ade and arrest­ed 6 per­sons. The same night the block­ade was raised again, with improve­ments to the company´s great dis­ap­point­ment. The activists plan to stay for the win­ter when the rein­deer and herders come and legal­ly can stop the test min­ing.

Resis­tance against the planned mine is grow­ing while the swedish police have said they are doing what the min­ing cor­po­ra­tion orders them to. Beowulf is cur­rent­ly silent and prob­a­bly don’t want more bad expo­sure and might try to beat the activists in the wait­ing game. Mean­while more peo­ple join the protests in dif­fer­ent ways through art and music as well as sup­port­ing the grow­ing protest camp. The activists are now build­ing Pen­ta­gon, a house sup­posed to work to decol­o­nize the world.

Update: The sec­ond bar­ri­cade was also destroyed by the cops the 12th of August and a secu­ri­ty guard­ing com­pa­ny is hired to pro­tect the test­mines and the road from pro­test­ers. This only to do test min­ing.

More recent update: Yes­ter­day they start­ed blast­ing, with 4 peo­ple near by in trees not out­side the blast­ing safe­ty zone. pigs removed bar­ri­cades in the morn­ing. many peo­ple got pulled off the road and chased from the for­est. 8 peo­ple were arrest­ed. last night and again tonight the road is bar­ri­cad­ed to delay work. now 10 secu­ri­ty work­ers work 12hr shifts, day and night. our spir­its are high. the bat­tle con­tin­ues.

http://kolonierna.wordpress.com/ for more info, pic­tures and videos.

How we Reclaimed the Power! — summary report of actions and before

A short sto­ry of No Dash for Gas, Reclaim the Pow­er and how peo­ple from across the coun­try stood in sol­i­dar­i­ty with Bal­combe to oppose Cuadrilla and the dash for gas…

A short sto­ry of No Dash for Gas, Reclaim the Pow­er and how peo­ple from across the coun­try stood in sol­i­dar­i­ty with Bal­combe to oppose Cuadrilla and the dash for gas…

It all began last year, when 21 activists occu­pied and shut down EDF’s gas fired pow­er sta­tion in West Bur­ton for over a week. It was time to stop the ‘Dash for Gas’ which would smash our cli­mate tar­gets and push up ener­gy prices…

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    The Great Gas Gala! | Com­muntiy Pro­tec­tion Col­lec­tive

    The Great Gas Gala! Since 7am on Thurs­day (25th July) the com­mu­ni­ty in Bal­combe, Sus­sex has been resist­ing attempts by frack­ing com­pa­ny…
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    And then, when we heard that Cuadrilla were explor­ing the poten­tial of frack­ing in Bal­combe and the local com­mu­ni­ty’s resis­tance, we changed the loca­tion of our ‘Reclaim the Pow­er’ action camp…

    action camp to switch loca­tion from West Bur­ton … — No Dash for Gas

    Aug 6, 2013 … The coali­tion of cli­mate, anti-aus­ter­i­ty and fuel pover­ty activists who were plan­ning on return­ing to West Bur­ton pow­er…
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    Huge num­bers of peo­ple signed up to our face­book event and told us they were com­ing. Even Rus­sell Brand was with us in spir­it!
     
    On Fri­day, we arrived in beau­ti­ful sun­ny Bal­combe, with mem­bers of a whole host of cam­paigns includ­ing UK Uncut, UK Tar Sands Net­work, Occu­py Lon­don, Dis­abled Peo­ple Against the Cuts and No Dash for Gas all join­ing the camp.
     
    Reclaim The Pow­er has arrived in Bal­combe | Come and join us!
     
    We joined the March for a Frack Free Future with two thou­sand pro­test­ers from across the coun­try…
     
  3. …and those from the local com­mu­ni­ty who’d been resist­ing Cuadrilla for weeks!
    August 19 2013: Bal­combe Sol­i­dar­i­ty Sun­day anti-frack­ing protest
     
    Local cam­paign­ers Vanes­sa Vine, Charles Met­calfe and Car­o­line Lucas MP were joined by speak­ers from No Dash For Gas and Occu­py Chevron in Poland to head­line a thun­der­ous ral­ly of oppo­si­tion.

 

The pro­test­ers then formed a human cir­cle around the site, join­ing hands, chant­i­ng and singing, while Cuadrilla’s work­ers looked on from inside their razor-wire fence.

  1. On Mon­day morn­ing, our Day of Action began!
     

  2. 6 activists block­ad­ed the entrance to Bell Pot­tinger’s offices in Lon­don, Cuadrilla’s “spin-doc­tors”. They are respon­si­ble for a whole host of pro-frack­ing lies and spin which we have thor­ough­ly debunked over the past 6 days.

    Cuadrilla’s PR com­pa­ny Bell Pot­tinger shut down by activists from Reclaim the Pow­er

    …then we heard from a group of 20 activists who occu­pied Cuadrilla’s HQ in Lich­field, just out­side Birm­ing­ham. They set up camp out­side the build­ing while three activists went inside, shut down 8 work sta­tions and took over a floor of the office!

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  4. Activists lock them­selves to fur­ni­ture inside Cuadrilla’s HQ
    …mean­while, a third action was tak­ing place at the con­stituen­cy office of pro-frack­ing min­is­ter, Fran­cis Maude MP. Tak­ing inspi­ra­tion from Lib­er­ate Tate, a wind tur­bine blade was deliv­ered to the roof of his office…
     
  5. Wind tur­bine out­side office of Fran­cis Maude MP
     
    …and with a rather love­ly mes­sage for Mr. Maude to read on his return!
     
  6. Note left out­side office of Fran­cis Maude MP
     
    Back at the drill site in Bal­combe, var­i­ous groups set up a range of orig­i­nal and cre­ative block­ades at the gate, involv­ing bikes, singers and dancers and lock­ing on to a wheel chair… 
     
  7. Block­ade out­side Cuadrilla frack­ing site in Bal­combe

    Sad­ly, the police decid­ed to be heavy-hand­ed in response to our peace­ful protest…

  8. Pro­test­ers block­ade Cuadrilla frack site in Bal­combe, West Sus­sex

     

    Else­where in Lon­don, 6 peo­ple had gone to Lord How­ell’s town house for our next action and set up a ‘For Shale’ sign there. George Osborne’s father-in-law is eager to spread frack­ing across the UK, par­tic­u­lar­ly to the ‘des­o­late north east’! Our activists from New­cas­tle might have oth­er ideas…

  9. Frack­ing lob­by­ist Lord How­ell’s house is for shale!
  10. Frack­ing lob­by­ist Lord How­ell’s house: for shale!

     

    Back in Bal­combe, the police decid­ed to start arrest­ing peace­ful pro­test­ers stag­ing a sit-in at the gate to the Cuadrillia site. Green MP, Car­o­line Lucas, was among those arrest­ed…

Back at the camp, the chil­dren at Reclaim the Pow­er (we were a gath­er­ing of all ages!) went on a bus ride to Bal­combe vil­lage to speak to local peo­ple about the dan­gers of frack­ing to every­one’s future. 
  1. Frack Free Future bus on tour!

     

    Word had spread to our friends and sup­port­ers world­wide about our day of action which had tak­en on Cuadrilla and the dash for gas from all sides!

    Then, only hours after being released, Car­o­line Lucas was field­ing inter­views, media work and back fight­ing frack­ing!

    And then, on Tuues­day, as we began mak­ing plans for the future…

    So as we pack down our camp today, it’s not the end! As Ewa from No Dash For Gas put it, ‘this is a marathon, not a sprint’ and we will win the fight against frack­ing…

Above from here

Good video