Power Trip: Fracking in the UK (63 minutes, 2019)                          WATCH THE FULL MOVIE

How protests stopped the UK Fracking industry

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This is a story of how dramatic protests forced Fracking firm Cuadrilla to permanently abandon it's controversial UK sites in 2022.

Power Trip: Fracking in the UK (63mins) takes you onto the frontlines of UK resistance in the battle to stop the controversial energy extraction process known as 'Fracking'. Over three years, Lancashire Police made more than 450 arrests at the Preston New Road site in a policing operation costing more than £12m. In 2018, three activists including a teacher became the first people to be jailed in the UK for a political protest since 1932, before their sentences were later quashed.

Undercurrents productions show what happens beyond the few seconds glimpsed on the mainstream TV news. We follow grandmothers (Lancashire Nanas) as they team up with younger activists (Reclaim the Power) to shut down Cuadrilla's drilling sites. In Lancashire and Sussex trucks are occupied, drilling sites are blocked and supply chains are disrupted. Police are spending millions of pounds trying (and failing) to stop the daily protests. One man attempts to make a citizens arrest on the Prime Minister for allegedly misleading the public over this form of extreme energy extraction. The film shows the truck surfing actions which led to the jailing of 3 people for protesting Fracking.

The film widens the discussion to highlight the role of the media and lobby groups in shaping public perception of unconventional gas and oil exploration.  We hear from energy experts, journalists and key politicians amongst the voices of local residents and councillors.

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The film has been supported by the Lush Film Fund

Link to resources which support this movie
Interviews include (amongst others)
Prof. Andrew R. Barron, Director Energy Safety Research Institute
George Monbiot, Columnist and author
Caroline Lucas MP, Leader of Green Party
John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor
Tamasin Cave, Spinwatch
Tina Louise Rothery, Lancashire Nanas
Anna & others,  Reclaim the Power
Paul Mobbs, Ecological Futurologist
Dale Vince, Founder Ecotricity
Kevin Blowe, The Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol)
Ruth Hayworth, Drill or Drop
Jamie Kelsey Fry, New Internationalist
John Vidal, Environment editor The Guardian

Interviewing George Monbiot

Filming protest camp

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Resources about Fracking           #powertripfilm

Where is Fracking banned?

Reclaim the Power- network of environmental activists

Refracktion- info on fracking in Lancashire

Preston New Road-  Lancashire Fracking site

Drill or Drop - Independent journalism on fracking

Frack off- find your local campaign group

Frackogram- who is who in the Fracking industry

Anti-Fracking Mural painter

United Resistance- get  yourself involved

Ecotricity green energy company

Cuadrilla- the Fracking company featured in Power Trip

'Fracking' is a slang word for the process of injecting liquid at high pressure into subterranean rocks and shale to force open existing fissures to extract oil or gas"