Christian campaigners have vowed to step up protests at a fracking site in Lancashire after a shale gas exploration company packed up its equipment for Christmas.
Fracking firm Cuadrilla operate the UK’s first horizontal shale gas exploration wells in New Preston Road, Blackpool, where dozens of tremors have been recorded since it began pumping high volumes of water underground in October looking for gas.
Daleen Ten Cate, Missional Discipleship Mentor for the United Reformed Church North West Synod, who, with a team of others, has spent every Friday campaigning at the gates to the site, says protests will continue in the new year.