Upton residents demonstrate their opposition to fracking outside a parish council meeting. Frack Free Upton have surveyed 2,121 households and 86% of the 2,284 residents consulted are against any form of exploration and development.
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Cuadrilla Resources fracking plans for Preston New Road have been REFUSED!!! – See the time-line to refusal below… This decision has implications for the whole of the UK and Ireland: Lancashire Fracking Showdown – The Beginning Of A Larger Battle […]
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Camp at Upton (near Chester) which is occupying land where IGas want to site a frack pad.
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Pink Footed Geese feeding on a wildfowl refuge set up by fracking company Cuadrilla were shot by hunters who had leased the same fields. Cuadrilla rented land on the Lancashire coast as winter grazing for birds displaced by its exploratory […]
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After 5 years Cuadrilla Resources dismal track record speaks volumes. Behind their continuing PR effort the company has blundered into a series of planning breaches and technical failures that are listed in detail below. As storm clouds gather over the […]
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27th July 2010 – Cuadrilla submits application 08/10/0973 for an exploratory borehole and testing of hydrocarbons 20th October 2010 – Lancashire County Council approves application 08/10/0973. Work to be completed within 18 months of commencement and conditions include an ecological […]
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The following guest-blog was written by Paul Beers. Paul is a resident of Upton, A suburb of Chester threatened by fracking company Dart Energy (recently bought by IGas Energy). Upton hosts a Community Protection Camp set-up on land that has […]
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Brockham, Surrey
Type: Tight/Shale Oil
Preston New Road, Lancashire
Type: Shale Gas Appraisal Wells
East Midlands
Type: Seismic Survey
Kirby Misperton, Yorkshire
Type: Shale Gas Appraisal Well