Anger and blockades as fracking starts in UK for first time since 2011
by Frances Perraudin and Helen Pidd from Environment | The Guardian on (#40VE7)
Operations start at Lancashire site after protesters block entrance and nearby road
Fracking has begun in the UK for the first time since 2011 despite an attempt by protesters to blockade the entrance to the Lancashire site.
Activists from campaign group Reclaim the Power used a van to block the entrance to a site on Preston New Road near Blackpool for 12 hours from 4.30am on Monday, but the shale gas company Cuadrilla said all the equipment it needed to frack was already there and it had started the process by 1pm.
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