Article 2WKTE 'This has been my life for past six years': on the anti-fracking frontline

'This has been my life for past six years': on the anti-fracking frontline

by
Helen Pidd North of England editor
from Environment | The Guardian on (#2WKTE)

Inside the Lancashire protest camp aiming to disrupt new Cuadrilla wells with direct action tactics

It is a battle that has gone on for years, pitting tireless local residents and environmentalists against a major gas exploration company hoping to get rich - and solve a future energy crisis - by fracking under the Fylde coast.

Last October the government overruled Lancashire county council and gave Cuadrilla the green light to begin drilling, but anti-fracking activists have refused to give up their fight.

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