A British company has started fracking operation at a site in Lancashire, northwest England, despite massive protests against the environmental damage of the operation.
Reports on Monday said Cuadrilla, an energy company focused on shale gas, had begun hydraulic fracking for natural gas at its Preston New Road site heedless of a demonstration outside where people were calling for an immediate stop to the operation.
The British government has ignored widespread calls for stopping its plans for fracking, which is the extraction of oil and gas under immense pressure. The operation has been proven to be highly destructive for the environment as it causes earthquakes and contaminates the water resources.
Courts have issued lengthy prison sentences for three activists involved in previous anti-fracking protests in Lancashire, saying they had disrupted the public order. The three had climbed up a truck carrying Cuadrilla’s equipment to Preston New…