I wasn't surprised to read more about the anti-fracking campaign in The Times today: "Supporters of "We need to talk about fracking" include Sir Paul McCartney, his daughter Stella, Yoko Ono ... (p20).

But I did not expect to discover that "Sir Paul McCartney has fracking right in one of the great Beatles songs" (p28).  He contributed the middle section of John Lennon's "A Day in the Life" (1967) - and its the first great fracking song because the lyrics include the line "four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire" even though most of the gas is to be found on the other side of Preston! 

This must be one of most bizarre Beatle references I've ever come across.