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$Balcombe, West Sussex. Site of Cuadrilla drilling. Demonstration against fracking 18.08.2013. A protester holds up a sign saying 'Here from the desolate north', a response to the conservative MP's suggestion that fracking should be done in the desolate north.$

$A wheel chair bound anti-fracking activist near the entrance to Quadrillas drill site in New Preston Road , July 01 2017, Lancashire, United Kingdom. The t-shirt says: The Desolate North which is how Lord Howell described Lancashire. The blockade is a repsonse to the emmidiate drilling for shale gas, fracking, by the fracking company Quadrilla and part of an ongoing struggle where makeshift towers and makeshift camps have sprung up outside the premisses. Lancashire voted against permitting fracking but was over ruled by the conservative central Government. Fracking is a highly contested way of extracting gas, it is risky to extract and damaging to the environment and is banned in parts of Europe . Lancashire has in the past experienced earth quakes blamed on fracking.$