Call Out: Ongoing Blockade Of Cuadrilla Fracking Site

kim t kim.icity at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 26 08:20:16 BST 2013


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Frack Off <info at frack-off.org> wrote:

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> From: The Great Gas Gala! <info at greatgasgala.org.uk>
> Date: Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:39 PM
> Subject: Urgent Call Out: Ongoing Blockade Of Cuadrilla Fracking Site
> To: info at greatgasgala.org.uk
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>
> Event: The Great Gas Gala! - Day 2
> Location: Lower Stumble, Balcombe, West Sussex
> Time: As early as you can get there (ideally by 7am)
> Date: Fri 26th
>
> Today (Thurs) 250 people blocked fracking company Caudrilla Resources from
> bringing equipment onto the site at Balcombe where they want to start
> drilling (see below for all the details). Cuadrilla will almost certainly
> try again on Fri (possibly sooner), so if we don't want Sussex coated in
> frack pads more efforts are needed. In New South Wales, Australia similar
> ongoing blockades have kicked 3 fracking companies out of the state in
> recent months. Cuadrilla's planning application expires in September.
>
> Fracking company Cuadrilla Resources are trying to start drilling in
> Balcombe, West Sussex, next to the London to Brighton railway line. 15
> trucks were meant to deliver to the site today but none made it through.
> Cuadrilla had been planning to start drilling by the weekend. The
> community in Balcombe is almost unanimously opposed to their village being
> fracked, and are hoping that they will receive your support in their
> efforts to stop it.
>
> People are digging in, so join us tonight or tomorrow! Another mass
> convergence is planned for Friday. People will be gathering at the site
> just south of Balcombe railway station on Friday morning (25th), from 7am
> onwards. While getting there as early as possible would be good, since
> Cuadrilla are likely to be trying to bring more equipment onto the site,
> there will be stuff happening throughout the day again. See below for
> details of what happened today.
>
> *Coming from Brighton? Jump on the FREE Frack Off bus at 7am tomorrow
> (Fri) morning at Old Steine bus stop (near RBS).*
>
> See http://greatgasgala.org.uk/ for more details and directions to the
> site etc. Please bring essentials such as food, water, and appropriate
> clothing/sun protection. Picnics, cakes, tea-making facilities, friends,
> banners, games, music, instruments, knitting (yellow and black – gasfield
> free community colours!), blankets, chairs, tables, gazebos, small tents,
> plastic cutlery/plates. You get the picture. Try to avoid bringing
> alcohol, drugs, anything which could be construed as a weapon, glass etc.
>
> Cuadrilla, who are mired in planning issues in Lancashire where their
> first test well triggered an earthquake, are seeking to open a second
> front in Sussex. Cuadrilla's planned test well at Balcombe would be just
> the beginning of a tidal wave of destruction, sweeping across the South
> East. The licence blocks held by Cuadrilla and Celtique Energie in Sussex
> could see thousands of wells drilled and fracked, plus associated
> pipelines, compressor stations and processing plants.
>
> For updates on what happened today see:
>
> * Latest News From The Great Gas Gala
> (http://frack-off.org.uk/latest-news-from-the-great-gas-gala/)
>
> For an overview of the situation at Balcombe please see these articles:
>
> * Fracking In Balcombe: A Community Says No
> (http://frack-off.org.uk/fracking-in-balcombe-a-community-says-no/)
> * Fracking Sussex: The Threat Of Shale Oil & Gas
> (http://frack-off.org.uk/fracking-sussex-the-threat-of-shale-oil-gas/)
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