The punk icon was joined by her son Joe Corre
outside the central London offices of British petrochemicals
firm Ineos, which is seeking to develop shale gas projects in
Britain.
The stunt a day before the start of London Fashion Week saw the
76-year-old designer strut along the street wearing a black
graphic T-shirt dress emblazoned with the slogan "FRACKING
CLIMATE CHAOS".
Models and activists wore similar outfits. "Fracking is over.
The people in this country are not going to accept it," Corre
said at the event.
The company was granted an injunction in 2017 by Britain's High
Court, preventing anti-fracking protesters from interfering with
its operations. Corre told crowd that activists were "not
frightened of," the injunction.
An Ineos spokesman said that activists' assertions that their
legal action had made all protest unlawful in the UK was not the
case.
"Our injunctions prohibit unlawful acts by protesters and in no
way impinge on the right to peaceful protest. These injunctions
simply protect Ineos and our people from hard core activists who
game the system and treat the law with contempt."
(Reporting by Helena Williams; Writing by Mark Hanrahan in
London; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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