Cuadrilla began drilling despite protesters blocking the entrance to the Little Plumpton shale gas site in Lancashire.
A police team had to cut a man and woman out of a set of tyres into which they had apparently cemented their arms.
Jonathan Essex from Green Christian told Premier why protesters opposed the controversial process.
Speaking during Premier’s News Hour, Essex said: “Just because something is commercially viable, doesn’t mean it’s good.
“That’s why many people including Christians are at the front gates of that drilling site saying, ‘this is not acceptable – there is a climate crime about to be committed’.
The work had been due to start on Saturday but was delayed by the effects of Storm Callum.
It followed an environmental campaigner failing in a bid to halt the work at the High Court.
At a hearing in London on Friday, Mr Justice Supperstone dismissed Bob Dennett’s application for an injunction preventing the company from fracking the UK’s first horizontal shale gas well pending his proposed legal challenge.
Mr Dennett claimed Lancashire County Council’s emergency response planning and procedures at the site were inadequate, but the judge ruled there was not a “serious issue” to be tried which would justify an interim order.
Essex said Christians shouldn’t ignore the effects the drilling will have on the…
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