UK: Lock-On Protest at Shale Gas Site
from Drill or Drop
Two pairs of opponents of Cuadrilla’s shale gas operations in Lancashire locked themselves together at about 5am outside the site at Preston New Road near Blackpool.
The lock-on protest was the first of 2018. A team of four specialist police officers removed the campaigners by early afternoon.
Police said four people, a 17 year old girl, men aged 43 and 56, and a 39-year-old woman had been arrested on suspicion of wilful obstruction of the highway.
A spokesperson for the opponents said the action was in memory of two anti-fracking campaigners who died suddenly at the end of last year.
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