Cheshire Police issue restrictive dispersal orders to Upton anti-fracking protesters
Fri 4:38 pm +00:00, 15 Jan 2016 5January 15th, 2016
PHOTO: Jenny Dee on Facebook
Cheshire Police have used controversial antisocial behaviour dispersal powers to exclude protesters from a large area around the recently evicted Upton anti-fracking camp near Chester.
At least ten anti-fracking campaigners who supported the Upton Community Protectors Camp, which was was evicted in a massive operation by police and bailiffs on Tuesday, have been excluded from a large area stretching for three miles on the outskirts of Chester.
Police have used powers under section 35 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, which allows officers to force individuals to leave an area for up to 48 hours if “members of the public in the locality [are] being harassed, alarmed or distressed”, or if there is an “occurrence in the locality of crime or disorder”.
These powers are very wide but the Act does say that police “must have particular regard to the rights of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly set out in articles 10 and 11“. However, there is little evidence that this ever occurred: as the photograph below indicates, no reasons were given for issuing one section 35 notice at Upton other than the existence of a “protest site”.
The area covered by the orders also appears wholly disproportionate and potentially unlawful: not simply Duttons Lane in Upton, where the evicted Protectors Camp had been situated, but an area covering around five square miles of the Cheshire countryside (in the case of the notice above, covered by Map B, below right).
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This is not the first time the Act has been used against protesters. In November 2014, Merseyside Police imposed a dispersal order against anti-fur activists in Liverpool city centre who were not even protesting at the time. In February last year, we highlighted the use of section 35 powers against housing protesters in Southwark and In October 2015, the Metropolitan Police again used section 35 to create a “walking kettle” to escort student protesters to Charing Cross station:
In January 2014, the Coalition government’s efforts to introduce new anti-social behaviour legislation were initially rejected by the House of Lords, precisely because of concerns about their threats to freedoms of speech and assembly. This was in spite of earlier amendments by ministers that supposedly protected protesters. Baroness Mallalieu summed up the concerns of many of her colleagues when she said:
“My main concern is the extent to which lowering the threshold to behaviour capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to any person has the potential to undermine our fundamental freedoms and, in particular, the way in which the proposed law might be used to curb protest and freedom of expression.”
When the legislation was initially introduced in 2013, Netpol argued it was inevitable that “any new powers to disperse on the basis of a likelihood of anti-social behaviour will also be used against people taking part in political assemblies and demonstrations”.
The issuing of section 35 dispersal orders at an entirely peaceful protest in Upton is another example of just how quickly the introduction of new police powers can severely restrict these fundamental rights.
Cheshire Police issue restrictive dispersal orders to Upton anti-fracking protesters
Cheshire Police issue restrictive dispersal orders to Upton anti-fracking protesters






The UNLAWFUL poolice seem to be ….MAKING IT UP….”on the hoof”.
Anyone clocked the “current” price of a ….BARREL of OIL ? ?
I believe it went down to below $30.00 a barrel yesterday !
The cost of extracting one barrel is around $80.00 !
Financial ….LOSS per BARREL … is around …..$50.00…..before anyone enters into the UNLAWFUL legalese of the ….SCAM ! ! !
Not only is fracking…….PRE-MEDITATED financial SUICIDE…….it is ….LEVERAGED SUICIDE.
Fracking operations are conducted using…….
1) Borrowed money.
2) RAT-PAPER run off the ……..printing presses of….FRAUD.
So, can anyone provide the names of individuals who are going to provide ….SURETY……..IN CASE OF……the …..GUARANTEED FINANCIAL LOSSES.
Under no circumstances will taxpayers consent to financially cover an operation that is guaranteed to be a……FINANCIAL DISASTER.
A disaster that a 5 year old could foresee.
The cost of producing a barrel of oil is very low indeed. Maybe $20 tops. The cost of shipping oil and piping oil around is high. But if oil price falls to its historic inflation-adjusted average of around $50, or lower, that cost comes down to a very low figure as well. Oil was manipulated to higher prices in 1973, when OPEC agreed covertly with the ‘US’ to five times oil prices, as long as they sent all the money to an address in NY and bought 30 Year Treasuries paying 5%. That bank went bust after sending all the money to the Third World to create that crisis of debt, and OPEC lost all its money.
The production cost of a barrel of oil of $80.00 per barrel was a reference to fracked shale oil in the US in 2014/15 and was obtained from an RT financial programme.
According to the following link…………..
https;//www.quora.com/At-what-oil-price-does-the-US-fracking-industry-become-unprofitable
…..there is no single cut-off price below which all shale, becomes unviable.
The range given on the above site suggests shale oil production costs may sit in the range of around $29.00 to $70.00.
Production life of the shale oil wells is said to reduce considerably within the first two years.
On another link……………….
http://www.fortune.com/2015/01/09/oil-prices-shale-fracking/
…..the average “all-in” break even cost for US hydraulic shale is $65.00 per barrel, according to a study by Rystad Energy & Morgan Stanley Commodity Research.
Conventional US oil wells; 10 years old are said to have a production cost of $20.00 – $30.00 per barrel.
Shale oil wells “apparently” do not last 10 years.
Shale oil wells enjoy an extremely short life.
In Montana/North Dakota a shale oil well that starts pumping 1,000 barrels a day will decline to just 280 barrels by the start of year two, a shrinkage of 72%.
By the beginning of year 3, more than half the reserves of the well will have been depleted and annual production will have fallen to a trickle.
“Short life” shale wells necessitate the perennial sinking of new wells in order to maintain oil production.
I believe the oil price today may be $28.? ?.
This price may be viable for conventional oil production but, in reference to fracked oil, it does not appear to make financial sense.
CAVEATS
The above production costs relate to US fracking costs.
I am not employed in the shale gas industry and therefore depend, on internet sites for information; information I am unable to verify.
Orphaned wells.
It appears that there is a trend in the US at the moment, to simply abandon “spent” wells.
Are the clean up costs of depleted wells; their physical dismantling and removal, included in the “production” costs of shale oil extraction ?
I get the impression the answer may well be no ?
Correction………
At What Oil Price Does The US Fracking Industry Become Unprofitable.
https://www.quora.com/At-what-oil-price-does-the-US-fracking-industry-become-unprofitable
This is not about profit. This is a war on us..destroying our agriculture and us. It’s a con and an insult to say anything else. Destruction by stealth again.