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Merry Christmas, frackers -- heres a real climate solution! The fracking test site at Barton Moss, UK was blockaded this morning with a giant wind turbine blade! Around fifty people arrived at 5.30 this morning to leave this imaginative early Christmas gift for fracking company IGas. Please LIKE and SHARE this post to spread the word about this latest piece of festive resistance! The Barton Moss site, near Salford in Greater Manchester, is the latest frontline in the battle for clean energy in the UK. IGas are trying to carry out test drilling to see if the site is suitable for extracting coal bed methane and shale gas, despite strong opposition from local residents and the community protection camp that has been resisting the drilling since mid-November. However, the sites only entrance is now completely blocked by the 1.5 tonne blade, so there wont be any drilling equipment heading in there for a while...
Posted on: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:32:31 +0000

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