One among many mindless and probably very harmful selections by the brand new UK authorities has been to present the go-ahead to firms to discover websites across the UK for doable fracking. It is unnecessary as it is going to don’t have any short-term affect on vitality provide and takes us completely within the incorrect path as far as our acknowledged intention in the direction of net-zero carbon emissions. And it could virtually actually lead to appreciable earthquake injury.
On Tuesday twenty seventh September 2016, Lancashire’s well-known anti-fracking Nanas – the Nanas from Nanashire – got here to Buckingham Palace in a protest with tiaras and tabards in addition to tea and scones to current an in depth report by Anna Szolucha on ‘The Human Dimension of Shale Gasoline Developments, and to name on Her Majesty as essentially the most highly effective grandmother within the land to cease fracking for the sake of future generations.
In fact they weren’t allowed into the palace however protested on the Queen Victoria Memorial fountain reverse the entrance of the palace, the place police made clear to them that they weren’t allowed to show their banners. They have been accompanied there by Inexperienced Social gathering co-leader Jonathan Bartley. The Nanas got here to petition the Queen as they are saying they’ve exhausted all different democratic openings.
Some, together with main campaigner Tina Louise Rothery placed on tiaras for the protest, and after a lot of the police had left some did get out their banners and show them briefly earlier than getting right down to the intense enterprise with tea and scones.
In addition to banners they’d include umbrellas and posters, which had not been proscribed by the police. Although maybe these have been too small to be learn by the Queen, although being a horse-racing proprietor she likely has an excellent pair of binoculars and was presumably peering out by means of the curtains from one of many seventy or extra home windows throughout the entrance of the palace.
I stayed round for an hour or two speaking with the protesters and photographing. Apparently shortly after I left a person arrived and tried to serve a court docket order on Tina Louise Rothery who’s being pursued over an enormous authorized invoice declare in opposition to her by fracking firm Cuadrilla who took a case in opposition to her for “for tenting in a discipline, doing no injury and exercising a proper to protest peacefully“.
She was the one named defendant within the case which seems to have been taken in an try to forestall additional protests, grossly inflating the prices of a referred to as eviction carried out when the protesters had already left. She has constantly refused to cooperate with the court docket over cost, saying that the prices are completely illegitimate, and if Cuadrilla persist risked being despatched to jail for contempt of court docket.
The Nanas stored up their protest in entrance of the palace for round 24 hours earlier than going again to Lancashire. Maybe King Charles could have larger sympathy with the goals of their protest.
Extra footage at Nanas name on Queen to cease Fracking.
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