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Grandparents occupying Whitehall department to protest fracking

Today’s protest takes place as the Minister responsible for fracking, Greg Clark, is poised to decide on whether to allow the first new UK fracking to commence since 2011.

By Ella Milburn
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Image: Grandparents and elders occupying the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy today. Credit: Ella Milburn

A group of grandparents and elders have chained themselves together in a government department building in Westminster this morning to urge the government to oppose “dangerous” fracking.

Aged between 63 and 82, the 10-strong group from the South West - Grandparents for a Safe Earth (GFASE) - have occupied the Westminster building to demand that the Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Greg Clark refuse permission for fracking.

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