25 activists from across seven countries, have today chained themselves to the gates of a Chevron shale gas exploration well in Eastern Romania, and are calling on the government to ban fracking in the country. The Greenpeace activists – from Romania, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Germany – held banners reading “Pungesti anti-Chevron quarantine area” and “Stop Fracking!” in protest of the US energy giant’s exploration work on the ground. Chevron began work on the exploration well in Pungesti, northeast of Bucharest, in December last year having postponed operations several times due to local opposition.