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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Josh Halliday North of England correspondent

THE TRUTH ABOUT: We will oppose this truss fracking plans met with anger and dismay in lancashire - Caught on Camera

Fracking protesters, from left, Tina Rothery, Tracey Booker, Julie Daniels with dog Lizzie, and Pauline Jones at the Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool.
Fracking protesters, from left, Tina Rothery, Tracey Booker, Julie Daniels with dog Lizzie, and Pauline Jones at the Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Chris Holliday, 60, recalls the exact moment a 2.9-magnitude earth tremor brought a halt to fracking in the UK. It was 8.30am on August bank holiday Monday in 2019 and Holliday, a retired IT consultant, was with his wife, Susan, in their neat kitchen when all of a sudden the cups and saucers began to shake.

“The crockery and glasses were rattling. The windows were rattling,” he said on Thursday.

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