Anti-fracking campaigners shelter in their fortified structure ready to use their lock-on devices as they are due to be evicted
Anti-fracking campaigners shelter in their fortified structure ready to use their lock-on devices as they are due to be evicted from their protest camp on land at Borras Head near Wrecsam where iGas plan to drill an exploratory well for coal bed methane and shale bed gas. The landowner and farmer, Terence Jones from Borras Head farm was granted an eviction order by judge David Hodge on 20th. November 2014. The site is on land over mines from the nearby Gresford Colliery where 266 miners, both men and boys, were killed in an explosion in 1934. The bodies of 263 remain entombed in the mines as they were not recovered.
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Location: Borras Head, Wrecsam, Clwyd, North Wales, Britain, UK
Photo credit: © Dave Ellison / Alamy / Afripics
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