among them is a prominent wine critic charles metcalfe.e has never been the type to demonstrate but now his t-shirts sports and anti-fracking looking -- slogan. >> unless we do something now to stop this, not just here but everywhere, our countryside will be real wind. our water will never be clean. it is a terrible future ahead of us. >> this has been thrust to the frontline of the anti-fracking movement. they're asking to build a human chain. so far the protests have been marginally peaceful. there have been 82 arrests would -- arrests. fracking involves forcing water or chemicals into the bedrock under high pressure to create tiny fractures through which oil and natural gas can be extracted. is conducting test and has not decided if it can produce gas in sufficient quantities here. charles metcalfe does not believe a word the company says. >> they have tried to deflect attention by saying we are not going to frack. they get to frack. we have learned not to trust anything they say. >> fracking has been implicated in causing earthquakes.