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OFFICIAL - Glastonbury is NOT FOR SHALE

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Michael & Emily Eavis pledge to keep Glastonbury site Frack-free

20 June, 2014

Worthy farm, Pilton, Somerset. Today Michael and Emily Eavis, whose dairy farm has been hosting Britain’s biggest and best party for over forty years, announced that the site of Glastonbury Festival will never be fracked, and Worthy Farm is officially Not For Shale!

Executive Director of Greenpeace UK, John Sauven welcomed the news –

“We salute Michael and Emily’s determination to combine good times with good deeds, to protect a site which means so much to so many people, and keep it Frack-free and Not For Shale.”

Both Emily and Michael signed a declaration which read –

I (Emily/Michael Eavis), resident at Worthy Farm, Pilton, give my word that I will not allow Fracking to take place on this site.

Sympathy for the revel - Glastonbury 2013

Posted by kcumming — 5 July 2013 at 4:07pm - Comments

It’s not every day we trump the Rolling Stones. But more than once at Glastonbury 2013, I overheard people pointing to the Greenpeace field and saying “that’s been my favourite thing at the festival”.

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