Police used batons and pepper spray to move sitting protestors during a demonstration against gas extraction in Groningen province on Tuesday night. Groninger Bodem Beweging, the action group set up by locals whose homes have been damaged by gas extraction, had held a protest march to join other demonstrators campaigning against fossil fuels in general, outside a NAM tank storage site near Farmsum. The organisers of that protest, Code Rood, said five activists had been injured when police moved in. … Continue reading Police use batons, pepper spray to break up Groningen anti-gas demo