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Wed Jun 4, 2014, 09:01 PM Jun 2014

We Apologise For Any Inconvenience Caused While We Frack Under Your Home



ThinkProgress ?@thinkprogress 1m
UK protesters stage mock fracking site around Prime Minister’s home http://thkpr.gs/1uhLpOs pic.twitter.com/uTm6kKdTbb

Protesters staged a mock fracking site around UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s country home on Wednesday, to protest a looming British law that would allow companies to drill under homes without permission.

The Greenpeace protesters arrived in hard hats and high-visibility jackets, and set up a fence line around Cameron’s home in Oxfordshire, a period cottage in the Cotswold hamlet of Dean. Another group of campaigners delivered a mock check to Cameron’s front door for for £50 [$83], representing the highest level of compensation the upcoming law would give to home and landowners should a franking company drill under their property, according to Greenpeace.

The signs on the fence line read “We apologise for any inconvenience we may cause while we frack under your home,” and directed complaints to the phone number for Cameron’s office.


read: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/04/3444793/fracking-protestors-cameron-home/
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We Apologise For Any Inconvenience Caused While We Frack Under Your Home (Original Post) bigtree Jun 2014 OP
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #1
I love it! Perfect way to demonstrate! nt babylonsister Jun 2014 #2
Brilliant! nt arthritisR_US Jun 2014 #3
Wicked and Recommended. NYC_SKP Jun 2014 #4
Fracktastic idea! madamesilverspurs Jun 2014 #5
Good job. Curmudgeoness Jun 2014 #6
Fabulous malaise Jun 2014 #7
K&R.... daleanime Jun 2014 #8
Kicking. nt littlemissmartypants Jun 2014 #9
People should do that here RainDog Jun 2014 #10

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
6. Good job.
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 09:58 PM
Jun 2014

It is about time that I see something from Greenpeace again. They need to do things to get attention like they used to do. And this is perfect.

RainDog

(28,784 posts)
10. People should do that here
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 03:38 AM
Jun 2014

At the home of every governor and legislator in every state that is poisoning groundwater.

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