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Simon Roscoe Blevins

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Simon Roscoe Blevins is a soil scientist and anti-fracking protester from Sheffield

October 2018

  • LITTLE PLUMPTON, 18 October 2018 - 
Environmental activists Rich Loizou, Richard Roberts and Simon Blevins, known as the Preston New Road Three and newly released from HMP Preston, outside Cuadrilla's site in Little Plumpton, Lancashire where the energy firm has restarted fracking for shale gas after a seven year gap.
Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    double quotation markI was jailed for my fracking protest. But others face much worse

    Simon Roscoe Blevins
    The injustice of my time in jail is dwarfed by the inequities that inspired my protest, writes environmental activist Simon Roscoe Blevins
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