Looking Back - Resistance to Unconventional Drilling at Woodburn Forest

andrew
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 15:36:22 +0000
Direct action, Energy, Fracking, Solidarity Times, Community, Environment, Ulster, Opinion, Analysis

This is an analysis of events at Woodburn forest (Carrickfergus, County Antrim) during the exploratory drilling operation being carried out by the company Infrastrata in the spring and summer of 2016. It is intended as a reflection on the successes and failures of the campaign to resist a poisonous and violent extraction of resources from the land, and indeed the lease and seizure of some of that land in an aggressive manner. It draws on personal testimonies; both my own and other activists’ experiences of specific direct actions, set within a broader political analysis of the context within which this sort of struggle is taking place, locally and worldwide.