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    BLACKPOOL, ENGLAND - AUGUST 14:  Security cameras and guards protect a proposed drilling rig site at Westby near Blackpool as activists arrive at an anti-fracking camp at Preston New Road Site near Westby on August 14, 2014 in Blackpool, England. Up to 1000 activists are expected at the camp over the weekend to attend workshops, discussions, and to protest on farmland. The camp has been established adjacent to the site where fracturing company Quadrilla propose to explore for shale gas.  (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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    MALTON, ENGLAND - MAY 24: An anti fracking sign is displayed in the garden of a home on the outskirts to the village of Kirby Misperton on May 24, 2016 in Malton, England. North Yorkshire Planning and Regulatory Committee voted seven to four in favour of a planning application submitted by Third Energy to conduct fracking at the KM8 drilling site near the village. Hydraulic Fracturing, or fracking, is a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
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