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$Miranda Cox.<br /> “It's Jan 7th, we are into the second year of the company developing the fracking site and exploring the wells and we are into the seventh or eighth year of our campaign against Cuadrilla in our area. We already know that our protest and other factors have delayed them. My suspicious is that they have had to abandon a well or some thing has gone not quite right., they were meant to have drilled and fracked two wells at this stage. I think if they had anything of significance to say they would be shouting about it and they have been dead quiet. We dont really know what is happening at the minute because lots of heavy equipment has left the site. There has been no communication for weeks and weeks and weeks, its all speculation but lots of water tankers have been removing water, surface water of fracking water, but nothing is really clear.”<br /> It is Green Monday and first week of the second anniversary of Cuadrilla's fracking exploration in Preston New Road. For two years activists have been keeping an eye on the fracking company Cuadrilla from the roadside of the fracking site in Preston New Road. The company has not actively fracked since November and is currently seemingly busy emptiyng the site for heavy equipment. Prostesters and climate protectors are still by the gates trying to work out Cuadrilla's intensions.$

$A plumber tames the water pipes. Reclaim the Power camp is set up in a field near Balcombe. The site is squatted but so far nor the owner nor police has made any moves to stop the camp from setting up. It is organised by the environmental group No Dash for Gas and the movement is protesting against the company Cuadrilla's fracking testing near Balcombe and have come to Balcombe to lend its support to the local protests against the drilling for gas.$