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...as fuel protesters are warned off refineries
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POLICE HAVE asked hauliers protesting at rising fuel prices not to blockade oil refineries while national security remains such a high priority.
Andrew Spence, of The Fuel Lobby, says that in meetings with senior police officers he has been directly advised not to blockade refineries as hauliers did during the last fuel protest.
"We've basically been warned off because of security fears and I understand that," he says. "What ever we do to object this time round it won't be blockading refineries. The police just say that even we can't know who might be standing next to us."
But Spence adds that complying with the police request does not mean hauliers will do nothing.
He concludes: "What I would like to see is hauliers and farmers working together and withholding all their services for a week — but I'm not sure people are ready for that yet."