Green Party Leader Caroline Lucas has been arrested after taking part in the protests.
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas was arrested after taking part in anti-fracking protests.
Ms Lucas was among a number of people arrested after staging a protest outside the gates of energy firm Cuadrilla’s drilling site in Balcombe, West Sussex, as hundreds demonstrated against fracking.
The arrests come as protesters who oppose the controversial process for extracting shale gas blockaded the headquarters of Cuadrilla while others superglued themselves to a PR company used by the energy firm.
The action at Cuadrilla in Lichfield, Staffordshire, at PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London, and Balcombe comes on the first of two days of “mass civil disobedience” which campaigners have pledged to carry out to highlight their stance against fracking.
