On 17 July, four members of “Frack Off”, which campaigns against fracking for shale gas, were found guilty by Preston magistrates’ court of ‘disrupting lawful activity’, and sentenced to two years’ conditional discharges with £750 costs each.
During the four-day trial, expert witnesses testified to the threat to the global climate and human health posed by the expansion of fracking.
The four had occupied the Cuadrilla Resources drilling rig off Lancashire for 11 hours last November.
Topics: Climate change & climate action, Fracking