An amazing video has been released by
YOU AND I FILMS, featuring the heroic actions of an anti-fracking
protester at the Cuadrilla drilling site at Balcombe in West Sussex.
Nikki Sanger, who lives only eight
miles away from Balcombe is afraid that the chemicals used in
fracking will directly affect her water supply.
Filmed at 5.30 on the morning on
Tuesday 3rd September 2013, Nikki is seen sitting on the floor
wrapped in a quilt and hand-cuffed to a metal gate.
Nikki Sanger incognito
She explains to the camera, “I am
a bit sick of talking about it, because people have explained for the
last six weeks, why we are here and what we are doing and I study
environmental science and know this is wrong, I know this is mad and
I know its just about money.”
Nikki Sanger, an out-door type of
person who loves adventure sports and activities says she choose to
protest by handcuffing herself to the drilling site gate because
“nobody is listening.”
Nikki Sanger first amongst many
She says, “I've signed petitions, I've
written to the EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency), I've been
here peacefully protesting for the last six weeks or longer. The
government is just not listening to its people and science has just
gone too far now. Once they start drilling and fracking, once they
start putting those chemicals down into the water table, they cannot
get them out.”
Nikki has been at the Balcombe protest
from the very start. As an active member of the anti-fracking
movement she is highly regarded as a die-hard activist willing to put
her life on the line to save the environment and the world around
her.
She demonstrates this passion by saying
“I don't want to leave this mess for the next generation and I
certainly don't want to say I didn't do anything to stop it.”
Nikki Sanger in action
Nikki defiantly sat her ground as a
hired thug moved in with heavy bolt cutters. At the moment the bolt
was about to cut, Nikki defiantly thrusts her other hand out,
willing to lose a finger if need be, to save our nation's water table
from contamination.
Even though her protest ended after a
violent and torturous struggle, in which the hired thug eventually
managed to get her cuffs off, she had this to say in the safety of a
car, 'Well they very roughly took the handcuffs of me which was very
disappointing because I was hoping to stop the workers coming in and
the trucks, to make it a bit more disruptive I suppose. A peaceful non
violent protesting is what I was aiming for. It was my form of non
violent direct action. I'd never do anything violent or anything to
hurt somebody.'
Nikki Sanger in the line of duty
Nikki Sanger is just one in an ever
increasing line of heroes and heroines putting their lives on the
line to protest against the biggest threat to our nation's environment
in a life-time.
Echoing the feelings of every protester
in Balcombe she finishes the video by saying 'I don't feel as if I've
done anything wrong, I'm just trying to put my point across as a
citizen of the world. And I really strongly believe this is wrong.'
Rebellion is in full swing in a sleepy lay-by, outside the privately owned Caudrilla fracking site, deep in the heart of
rural West Sussex.
A ‘Free Frack Off’ bus will be running every day this week from Brighton to the
community blockade at Balcombe. 7am from Old Steine (near RBS). Please come and
support the community if you can, or even better stay overnight at the camp.
Cuadrilla who?
Cuadrilla, a shale extraction company has started exploratory
drilling, but
doesn’t expect to actually commence hydraulic fracturing, until they have a
clearer idea if there is enough oil to extract without needing to frack it out.
On Thursday 25th July, a whooping 250 rebels stopped 15
trucks bringing in equipment to the Cuadrilla drilling site.
Friday 26th July, solved the mystery of why Police emergency
calls are going unanswered and why response
times in Sussex
have increased by almost a third in three years.
With 100 police officers acting as private contractors of
the privately owned Cuadrilla, day two of the Balcombe rebellion saw the
blockade broken and trucks escorted onto site.
Sussex Police turn to torture
Shocking pictures and video has been released showing Sussex
Police officers using torture techniques to break up rebels stopping fracking trucks into the Cuadrilla site.
As these pictures show: Police officers are pinching the
ears of protesters to inflict maximum torture and break them up.
Is this really the best use of a police officer's time?
On Saturday the rebellion continued and on Sunday the
rebellion won, after Cuadrilla dropped any further attempts of getting their
trucks in.
As Francis Egan, chief executive of fracking firm Cuadrilla,
said to an Argus reporter
“We have a legal right to be here doing
what we’re doing and we are sticking to the rules.”
Conflict of interest
Revealed by the Independent newspaper in the Sunday edition
of 14th July 2013:
‘Fracking industry
bosses at heart of coalition.’
The former BP boss Lord Browne, Centrica chief executive Sam
Laidlaw and BG Group director Baroness Hogg have all used their inside
influence, while holding senior advisory roles at a time when the Government is
heavily promoting fracking.
It is no wonder they have a legal right to do what they are
doing because senior figures from that shale extraction industry sit in the
heart of Government.
Mr Osborne said: "I want Britain to be a leader of the shale
gas revolution,” by offering a staggering 50% tax break for fracking firms.
Mr Osborne is either completely oblivious to the dangers of
fracking or fully aware and a major player in the conspiracy to wipe out the
Earth’s human population to half a billion. The latter is evidently true when
learning George Osborne's father-in-law, Lord Howell, is also president of the
British Institute of Economics, whose backers include BP and BG Group.
Fracking is frigging nightmare!
Make no mistakes, fracking is a frigging nightmare. Do not believe the propaganda of George Osborne. The
evidence from the USA and Australia is as
crystal clear as glacier water. Fracking poisons water, causes earthquakes and
takes us ever closer to dangerous and irreversible climate change. It causes toxic
and radioactive water pollution and sets tap water on fire.
Guerrilla Democracy salutes the brave rebels at Balcombe for protecting
the UK
(and the world) from the threat of fracking.
For the latest information on the Balcombe Rebellion, check out the Frack-Off.org.uk website.
Join the Rebellion at Balcombe.
A ‘Free Frack Off’ bus will be running every day this week
(or until the rebels win!) from Brighton to the
community blockade at Balcombe. 7am from Old Steine (near RBS). Please come and
support the community if you can, or even better stay overnight at the camp.
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