Eclipse Strategic Security
Eclipse Strategic Security have acted as private security contractors to petrochemical giant INEOS Upstream, and oil and gas companies UKOG and Europa. Its work has included monitoring anti-fracking protests across the UK.
Eclipse, which is based in Herefordshire, describes itself as an 'international security and risk management company' which has become the 'leading provider of onshore drilling site security and logistical support services'. It was originally set up in response to 'a growing market' demand for security organisations that could provide a tailored and measured response to 'unorthodox threats' within the fossil fuel industry.[1]
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Supporting anti-fracking campaign injunctions
2017
At a three-day high court hearing about Ineos' sweeping injunction against protestors at its shale sites, Eclipse CEO Ray Fellows said in a submission that the fracking industry was “becoming increasingly concerned at the risks posed by militant activists”.
Fellows had also attended a meeting with police reported The Guardian:
- On 10 May, industry representatives had met police officers including a secretive unit that monitors campaigners. “At that meeting, the strongest advice coming from the police to prevent the unlawful activity was the use of injunctions through the civil courts, and that it was the view of the police that the industry collectively has enough evidence to obtain such relief,” Fellows said. [2]
2018
In March 2018 Eclipse manager James Court said in a witness statement supporting UKOG's application for a sweeping injunction preventing even peaceful protest at its sites that:
- "Over the past 12 months, it has become a tactic of anti-fracking protesters to target the operators supply chain in an attempt to disrupt their businesses.”
- “It is clearly the object of the protesters to attempt to intimidate those companies (such as haulage companies, fencing companies and skip hire companies) into withdrawing from their supply operations. Unless stopped, this form of protest against suppliers and sub-contractors will continue.”
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- ↑ About Eclipse Security, accessed November 2018
- ↑ Rob Evans, [Fracking protest injunction based on 'flimsy evidence'], The Guardian, 1 November 2017
