Rolling Resistance against Fracking, July 2017, Preston New Road

Since Cuadrilla began build­ing a frack­ing pad at Pre­ston New Road near Black­pool in Jan­u­ary 2017, peo­ple have been at the road­side every day, putting their bod­ies on the line to stop this tox­ic indus­try. The resis­tance is work­ing – sup­ply chain com­pa­nies are pulling out and the build­ing sched­ule has been delayed by months.

Rolling Resistance - Blue Draft 1

July. Lancashire. Be there.

Since Cuadrilla began build­ing a frack­ing pad at Pre­ston New Road near Black­pool in Jan­u­ary 2017, peo­ple have been at the road­side every day, putting their bod­ies on the line to stop this tox­ic indus­try. The resis­tance is work­ing – sup­ply chain com­pa­nies are pulling out and the build­ing sched­ule has been delayed by months.

This sum­mer, as Cuadrilla gets near­er to try­ing to drill, Reclaim the Pow­er is join­ing the front­line strug­gle in Lan­cashire to sup­port and rein­force the amaz­ing local resis­tance, and we invite you to join.

For the month of July, we’ll be pro­vid­ing train­ing, resources, and sup­port to take cre­ative action against Cuadrilla and the frack­ing sup­ply chain. We will help con­tin­ue to halt their work in its tracks and fight for a clean, safe, afford­able ener­gy sys­tem for every­one across the UK.

Whether you’re part of an action group already, or you’re new to tak­ing action and want to test things out, there’s roles for every­one, and sup­port to take part. Whether you can come for 2 days or 2 weeks, whether you can chop veg, brew tea or take action – this resis­tance move­ment needs you, and we’ll be lend­ing our sup­port to local activ­i­ty how­ev­er we can.  More details on the Rolling Resis­tance in July are here.

In the mean­time, if you can get to Pre­ston New Road soon­er, then there’s logis­ti­cal details here of the dai­ly protests hap­pen­ing already.  We’ll update with a full sched­ule of events for July and secure sign up form short­ly, for now, sign up to stay in the loop.gn Up:

Get ready. Get spreading the word. Get July in the diary.

Check out the wrap-up of our Break the Chain fort­night of action in April.

To get involved and trained up ready for July, join one of our upcom­ing Direct Action train­ings.

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About Reclaim the Pow­er

Reclaim the Pow­er is a UK-based direct action net­work fight­ing for social, envi­ron­men­tal and eco­nom­ic jus­tice. We aim to build a broad based move­ment, work­ing in sol­i­dar­i­ty with front­line com­mu­ni­ties to effec­tive­ly con­front envi­ron­men­tal­ly-destruc­tive indus­tries and the social and eco­nom­ic forces dri­ving cli­mate change.

We’ve been work­ing to oppose frack­ing since 2013 when we organ­ised mass action at Bal­combe. Since then, we’ve host­ed anti-frack­ing action camps in Black­pool and Did­cot, and tak­en count­less actions to expose and resist the indus­try.