Balcombe -- Shale Gas Exploration & Anti-Fracking Demonstrations

Here's some recent media coverage regarding shale gas exploration in Balcombe (UK): 

"It is expected that the final cost of policing the protests, which are continuing on a much smaller scale, will eventually hit around £3.7 million.

"Anti-fracking activists are protesting about energy firm Cuadrilla's exploratory oil drilling operation in the countryside."
-- from "Are Balcombe fracking protests worth almost £4m in policing costs?" by Louise Gray (The Telegraph, 8/23/2013)

Links: 

• Balcombe anti-fracking protest – in pictures (The Guardian)
• Caroline Lucas explains protest aims after fracking arrest in Balcombe - video (The Guardian)
  
• Vivienne Westwood joins Balcombe fracking protest - video (The Telegraph)