Protests in summer 2013 against oil exploration in Balcombe, Surrey, drew protesters from far and wide to blockade operations. Since then oil exploration has spread throughout the county.
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The day after the eviction of Leith Hill Protection Camp a digger demolishes the wooden fort which had been constructed by protesters to hold up work and protect the area from oil drilling.
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A protester remonstrates with a security guard during the eviction of Leith Hill protest camp in June 2017.
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A protester remonstrates with a security guard during the eviction of Leith Hill protest camp in June 2017. Surrey, UK.
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Having been locked-on overnight, a protester is lowered from a wooden fort by a specialist team during the eviction of Leith Hill Protection camp in June 2017.
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A specialist eviction team look up at the wooden tower where protesters are being cut from their ‘lock-ons’ during eviction of Leith Hill Protection Camp in June 2017.
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A fort constructed out of discarded wooden pallets at Leith Hill Protection Camp in Surrey. In June 2017 the camp was evicted and demolished. Four activists locked themselves inside the tower overnight and were removed by a specialist team. Underneath the fort a network of tunnels had been built.
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Protesters at the entrance gate of Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool in Lancashire. The same day, July 24, the Government awarded a license to allow Cuadrilla to switch from exploration to commercial extraction.
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Protesters at the entrance gate of Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool in Lancashire. The same day, July 24, the Government awarded a license to allow Cuadrilla to switch from exploration to commercial extraction.
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A confrontation between protesters and police at the entrance gate of Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool in Lancashire.
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A protester is confronted by police at the entrance gate of Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool in Lancashire.
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A protester is confronted by police at the entrance gate of Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool in Lancashire.
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A protester in front of a line of police at the entrance gate of Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool in Lancashire.
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A protester at Preston New Road in July 2017 holds up a sign while he is accosted by police officers.
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Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants live in Sabah, East Malaysia on Borneo Island. Some of them have lived there for many years with children born there. Not eligible for official documentation they are stateless people.
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Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants live in Sabah, East Malaysia on Borneo Island. Some of them have lived there for many years with children born there. Not eligible for official documentation they are stateless people.
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Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants live in Sabah, East Malaysia on Borneo Island. Some of them have lived there for many years with children born there. Not eligible for official documentation they are stateless people.
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Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants live in Sabah, East Malaysia on Borneo Island. Some of them have lived there for many years with children born there. Not eligible for official documentation they are stateless people.
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Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants live in Sabah, East Malaysia on Borneo Island. Some of them have lived there for many years with children born there. Not eligible for official documentation they are stateless people.