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Vivienne Westwood joins anti-fracking protest camp as 1,000-strong crowd descends on Balcombe
'I'm anti-fracking and I'm here to protest. There has been no debate,' she says
Up to 1,000 new protesters, including the fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, started arriving
in Balcombe today as the three-week protest against the possibility of fracking at the West Sussex village
moved up a gear.
Like many of the existing protesters, the new influx of opponents plan to camp by the site for the next
five days and organisers were furiously pitching tents, bringing in food and building make-shift toilets
today, as dozens of extra police were drafted in.
Surrounded by activists, Dame Westwood called for a public debate on fracking, which she said
could store up problems for decades to come if allowed to proceed.
"I'm anti-fracking and I'm here to protest. There has been no debate. They are trying to rush this
thing through, for what?"
"I'm sure it's bad and the only people who are going to benefit from it is this energy company....
They all have vested interests. It's a kind of club....Who do they [the government] think they are
when I would say most of the country is really against fracking, particularly at this point in time,
when we don't know what's at stake," she said.
The latest protesters, most of whom belong to a coalition called No Dash For Gas, will add to a
core of about 200 protesters who started picketing the gate last month and have promised to
take "direct action" rumoured to include a plan to invade the site.