Preston New Road

Campaigners accused of breaching injunction

Brendan Montague

| 25th June 2019

Anti-fracking campaigners could face jail for alleged breach of Cuadrilla injunction.
Oil and gas 'ties' of fracking Judge

Chloe Farand

| 24th October 2018

Investigation launched into allegations the judge who handed fracking protesters 'manifestly excessive' jail sentences has family ties to oil and gas.
Comment: Giving environmental activists the platform they deserve

Mat Hope

| 28th September 2018

Protesting against fracking in the UK is now an imprisonable offence. Without the independent media, no-one would have been there to document this seismic shift in the criminalisation of environmental activism.
The day fracking protest became a imprisonable offence

Mat Hope

| 28th September 2018

On Tuesday 25 July 2017, four protestors stopped a convoy of lorries going to a fracking site in Lancashire writes MAT HOPE
Weeks of disruption planned for fracking site

Catherine Harte

| 7th June 2018

Anti-fracking movement 'Reclaim the Power' has announced its plans for a summer of disruption against a fracking site in Lancashire. This came days after Greg Clark said shale wells in England will be considered permitted development. CATHERINE HARTE reports

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