ABSTRACT
"Fracking is stoppable, another world is possible" was a regular chant during protest marches against fracking lorries at the Balcombe Community Protection Camp at Lower Stumble, located on a wide grassy verge of the B2036 road in summer 2013. The community of activists, local residents, and earth defenders who protested were there to fight for the same planet but a very different world: one more environmentally balanced and less exploitative. The community that formed along the roadside was open to anyone, was based on consensus community meetings, claimed itself alcohol- and meat-free, organised itself haphazardly around campfires and borrowed gazebos, and had electricity through solar power. This movement occurred in Balcombe in response to the proposed hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operation that the company Cuadrilla had begun several miles outside the village.
