Lancashire fracking row rages on: ‘Theresa May forced it on us’
As horizontal drilling starts in Fylde this month, the Guardian talks to protesters and gets a look inside the Cuadrilla siteMike Hill, sitting in his living room a few miles from a fracking site outside Blackpool, is brandishing a government letter brushing aside his concerns about the industry. “You, Theresa May, overruled democracy to force fracking on the residents of Fylde,” he says, reading from his own letter to the prime minister, in which he urges her to heed experts’
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