- Four anti-fracking activists have been imprisoned on 25 September for riding trucks carrying machinery to pierce the land for fracking and hamper their work, according to the newspaper The Guardian.
The quartet, known as Frack Free 4, has been imprisoned for a peaceful protest in July 2017 near Lancashire in southern England. Many neighbors cut off the road to the truck convoy carrying fracking machinery, and these four members, each of them, boarded a truck. The protest took place within the framework of the campaign Reclaim the Power, promoted by the Madrid Police. The four stayed four days on the trucks, thanks to the solidarity of the citizens who provided them with food, sleeping bags and what they needed.
As they denounced in the courts, their only crime was to commit a fair and peaceful act, "facing an activity they want to impose, without the need to go through democratic avenues".
The institutional representatives of the peoples around Lancashire have repeatedly spoken out against fracking. The company Cuadrilla is the main driver of fracking in the United Kingdom.
On the day they were incarcerated, sooner or later, they said the fight against fracking is going to win and explained the reasons for their protest.
This is how the chronicle ends in The Guardian journalist Sandra Ladille: The Government rejected the decision taken by the Lancashire District Council and approved the gas extraction company Cuadrilla in October 2016. Since the Crew began building the fracking area, more than 300 protesters have been arrested since January 2017.