Salford star, Bez, is urging as many people as possible to join him on Monday to "Help me shake my maracas at the frackers"...
Bez and the Reality Party will be joined by fashion legend Vivienne Westwood, Agent Provocateur founder and activist, Joe Corre, the anti-fracking Lancashire Nanas and more in a day of solidarity with the Upton Community Protection Camp, which has an eviction notice hanging over it, following a hearing at Manchester High Court eight days ago.
Upton Camp, near Chester, is the longest running anti fracking camp in the UK and the first to occupy the actual site where the drilling is intended...
"An eviction will undoubtedly be followed by the drilling of this beautiful land" states the Camp "IGas have planning permission until May 2016 and so in order for them to not lose this site and possibly the whole PEDL licence (as per the drill or drop rules), it is imperative for them that they drill here. We will resist this!"
And Oz, from the Reality Party, which was founded in Salford on an anti-fracking ticket while the Barton Moss protests were ongoing, adds: "We are committed to helping those who have put their lives on hold to help in the fight to stop fracking and will do all that we can to support the protectors on camps throughout the UK.
"We mustn't allow international gas and oil corporations to destroy our environment in their greed for money" he explains "The fact is, fracking is unsafe. Even if there is only a small chance of things going wrong we feel that it shouldn't be allowed. We must now begin to invest more into green renewable energy sources, not scratching about in the dirt like cavemen for the scraps of fossil fuels that run the risk, however small, of polluting the environment at its source, let alone the burning of such fuels. Fracking in the UK must be stopped."
Meanwhile, the Camp's Alice Fraser says: "We will defend that land by any means necessary...We will not back down."
Upton Community Protection Camp Solidarity Day
Monday 16th November
Duttons Lane
Upton CH22 PE
Chester
For further details see the Facebook event page Stand With Upton – Say No To Fracking – click here
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