Anti-fracking protesters to see in new year at Yorkshire site
by Josh Halliday North of England correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#273B1)
Activists brave the cold by camping near Kirby Misperton where shale exploration by Third Energy has council's approval
Protesters have called themselves the "frontline in the fight against fracking" as they prepare to camp out on New Year's Eve by one of the two UK sites where the practice is has been given the go-ahead.
Activists moved on to private farmland near Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire, just before Christmas, after the high court rejected a legal move to stop plans for fracking at a well south-west of the village.
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