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Police remove 14 protesters blockading Balcombe site where energy company Cuadrilla is looking for shale oil
Robert Booth, The Guardian, Friday 26 July 2013,
 Police officers try to break a human chain formed by anti-fracking protesters at Balcombe. Photograph: Tony Kershaw/Rex Features
Sussex police have made 14 arrests at an oil drilling site near the village of Balcombe after local people and anti-fracking activists attempted to block the delivery of machinery for a second day using a human chain and tree trunks.
Activists said police removed people who had blockaded the gates to the rural West Sussex site where the energy company Cuadrilla, headed by the former BP chief Lord Browne, intends to start test drilling for oil next week.
Sussex police said five people were arrested for causing danger to road users, and nine under trade union law for attempting to stop drivers and other workers from accessing the site. Police said the arrests were peaceful, but activists said there were struggles.
On Thursday the protesters, who had gathered by the gate to the drilling site on London Road, were warned by police that they would be committing an offence if they blocked trucks from entering.
 Police protect a lorry delivering drilling equipment to the Balcombe fracking site. Photograph: Lee Thomas/Demotix/Corbis
....Frack, frack, till you drop, it will never work, but will destroy nature and farmland, pollutes water resources and land bigtime, if if if it ever happens !
Big thanks to the activist showing us the reality of fracking !
Sorry to see what they had to endure to do so !
If you look at the number of protestors it was a rather small action, but if you look at the disproportionate police force and police violation and think about it all it might be well worth it !
It really shows a looser here: fracking,
Ak Malten, Pro Peaceful Energy Use
Anti-fracking activists arrested at West Sussex drilling site
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