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PROFITEERS behind a plot to ramp up environment-wrecking fracking operations in north-west England will face protests when they meet privately in Manchester on Saturday.
Ministers encouraging firms involved in shale gas fracturing to increase their operations across Britain and particularly in the north-west England and Yorkshire.
Opponents say the process threatens water supplies and causes air pollution.
“The fracking industry is meeting behind closed doors because they are afraid of democracy,” said Frack Free Greater Manchester’s (FFGM) Martin Porter.
More than 1,000 people marched through Manchester on September 21 to protest against fracking.
Now more protests are being organised by FFGM for a meeting between fracking firms, council officials and others at the Lowry Centre on Saturday.
Pickets will be in action outside the centre from 8am, with a bigger protest planned from 12 noon.
“If the people of Manchester were given a vote, the frackers would be run out of town tomorrow,” said Mr Porter.
“Fracking is the last gasp of the fossil-fuel dinosaurs.
“Manchester was the first city of the industrial revolution and last Sunday over a thousand people called on the Labour Party to support a new industrial revolution to give us the technology we need to survive the future.
“We don’t want fracking, we want clean energy and one million climate jobs instead.”
peterlazenby@peoples-press.com
