Anti-fracking protesters near Manchester dumped a massive wind turbine blade at the Gates of a drilling site on Monday, temporarily blocking access to the heavily defended area.
The site based in Moss in Salford, which is run by IGas, which has been given permission drill a borehole up to 10,000ft below the ground.
Around fifty odd campaigners, some dressed in Santa hats, put the 1.5-tonne, 17-metre long blade in place at around 5.30am and wrapped it in a big red bow.
Sandra Denton one of the protesters, said: “We’ve delivered this early Christmas gift to IGas to remind them that we don’t need damaging, risky and polluting energy sources like oil and gas to power the UK. The government and the big energy companies are planning to build a new wave of gas-fired power stations, partly fed by thousands of fracking wells across the British countryside.”
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