Protesters camp out overnight, opposed to fracking deal in U.K.

Protestors against fracking have been in daily confrontations with police in the U.K. after a fracking deal was reached there a little over a week ago.

Al-Jazeera News reports, that energy company, Caudrilla was given the O.K. in their exploration bid for oil, to drill into the British countryside.

The number to those joining this movement grew in large numbers this past Tuesday. They have established that they are in it for the long haul with kettles boiling on gas cylinders and plastic ponchos becoming a more frequent site.

The group have set up their camp in Balcombe, which is a remote village in the south of England. They are voicing their concerns over the possible fears of what exploratory drilling will do to the local resevoirs.

82 per-cent of the villages' residents oppose the fracking deal.

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