Monthly Archives: January 2017
2 Years Of Drilling & Fracking Per Site For Cuadrilla Lancashire Appraisals
Cuadrilla Resources are planning the largest fracking tests to date in Lancashire. For residents this is a disaster as these new 24 hour industrial sites will blight the area around them with noise and light pollution. WHEREVER YOU LIVE IN THE UK YOU CAN TAKE ACTION TO STOP FRACKING, FIND OUT HOW… An organised community […]
Fracking Trucks Rolling In Lancashire But Communities Are Fighting Back
At Preston New Road in Lancashire Cuadrilla Resources is trying to construct a frack pad for the largest fracking tests in this country so far. The local communities are standing their ground against this fracking threat and disrupting construction at every opportunity, and making sure that Cuadrilla regrets its decision to take them on. Cuadrilla […]
Fracking Trucks On The Roll In Lancashire & Surrey – Time To Resist
Today people across the country have been resisting fracking trucks invading their communities. At Preston New Road in Lancashire Cuadrilla Resources is trying to construct a frack pad for the largest fracking tests in this country so far. At Brockham in Surrey Angus Energy is trying to drill a sidetrack off an existing well which […]
Radioactive Fracking Waste May Be Destined For Middlesbrough
Cuadrilla Resources are planning the largest fracking tests to date in Lancashire. The radioactive liquid waste from drilling and fracking has to go somewhere and Brand Sands near Middlesbrough is a possible destination. IF YOU LIVE NEAR THIS SITE PLEASE GET IN TOUCH: outreach@frack-off.org The Bran Sands Treatment Works is operated by Northumbrian Water on […]
20,000 Vehicle Movements Per Fracking Test Site In Lancashire
Cuadrilla Resources are planning the largest fracking tests to date in Lancashire. With support sites all over the UK and thousands of fracking trucks carrying millions of gallons of toxic/radioactive waste. WHEREVER YOU LIVE IN THE UK YOU CAN TAKE ACTION TO STOP FRACKING, FIND OUT HOW… An organised community is THE best defence against […]
Cuadrilla Moves In On Planned Lancashire Fracking Site
Contractors (AE Yates Ltd) working for Cuadrilla Resources have moved in on land where it has permission to construct the largest fracking development in the UK. Cuadrilla needs to construct an access road and large frac pad on fields north of Preston New Road before drilling can begin. Local communities are massively opposed to this […]
Large Earthquake Occurs Near Fracking Investor Engie’s New Gas Platform
Less than a month after the largest new gas field in the UK North Sea was brought online by fracking investor Engie (formally GDF Suez) the largest UK earthquake in almost a decade has struck within miles of the new platforms, and was felt onshore 100 miles away. The Cygnus field began producing gas just […]
Fighting Fracking In 2016: A Year Of Community Resistance Costs Frackers
- Year of more delays/costs for fracking industry
- 2016 began with major threat in Lancashire
- A year on there is no progress on ground
- Strong community opposition slowing industry
- Number of communities threatened is growing
- Increased efforts to block local decision making
- Movement will need to adapt to stay effective
- This is a battle which we cannot afford to lose