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21/08/2013
Balcombe Protest Camp To Close
An ongoing protest camp in West Sussex over exploratory oil drilling is to
close, with the landowners being told that the protesters would leave the site on Wednesday.
A number of arrests were made at the Reclaim The Power camp in Balcombe, including Green MP Coraline Lucas, over fracking it was suspected energy company Cuadrilla would carry out.
It is understood however, that others who have been protesting the drilling since July 25 will continue.
Cuadrilla had suspended work at their site during the camp but are now believed to hope to begin again "as soon as it is safe".
Organisers of the camp, No Dash for Cash, have also said its activists would continue to resist fracking in Balcombe and across the UK.
(MH/JP)
close, with the landowners being told that the protesters would leave the site on Wednesday.
A number of arrests were made at the Reclaim The Power camp in Balcombe, including Green MP Coraline Lucas, over fracking it was suspected energy company Cuadrilla would carry out.
It is understood however, that others who have been protesting the drilling since July 25 will continue.
Cuadrilla had suspended work at their site during the camp but are now believed to hope to begin again "as soon as it is safe".
Organisers of the camp, No Dash for Cash, have also said its activists would continue to resist fracking in Balcombe and across the UK.
(MH/JP)
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