Extinction Rebellion blocks UK fracking site in climate protest
by Josh Halliday North of England correspondent from on (#4Q0MC)
Environmental activists demonstrate outside Cuadrilla's Preston New Road site
Extinction Rebellion has blocked the entrance to the UK's only active fracking site in a demonstration against what it called the "burgeoning catastrophe" of global warming.
Protesters from the environmental group gathered outside the shale gas site on Preston New Road, near Blackpool, on Tuesday morning alongside a yellow boat bearing the words: "Planet before profit".
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