‘Today is Pivotal’: Lancashire Campaigners Made to Wait One More Day for Fracking Fate

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It’s 4.21pm. I’m just saying. I’d like to say it’s all okay, but it’s really not. It sucks.”

It’s difficult to hear Tina Rothery’s gloomy pronouncement, as heavy rain has just started to hammer the canvas of the hoop house where we are sat. She has been stationed here for hours, along with a small group of fellow activists, refreshing her phone, waiting to see whether the High Court has lifted an injunction against Cuadrilla, allowing the company to finally start fracking in a field in Little Plumpton, Lancashire.