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Arrests as climate activists target energy ministry
Ceren Sagir - 12 November 2018
CLIMATE activists took the fight against fracking to the government today, gluing and locking themselves to the ministry responsible.
Extinction Rebellion campaigners glued themselves to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy office in London to highlight the “havoc” caused by hydraulic fracturing, an industry emphatically supported by the Tories.... See more
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