Monthly Archives: April 2018
Join The Fracking Resistance – 3 Months Of Events At Preston New Road
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Lancashire Fracking Tentacles Spread From Aberdeen To Great Yarmouth
This week’s demos outside ARR Craib and RTH-Lubbers in Aberdeen, two companies which have been supplying the Cuadrilla Resources fracking site at Preston New Road in Lancashire, highlight the national nature of the fracking threat. Just because a fracking site is in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire or Surrey does not mean that that impacts will be limited to the region in question. Thousands of tons of dangerous frack sand and chemicals are needed for each site (and have to come from somewhere), and the millions of gallons of fracking waste produced by a site also have to be moved by road (and be dumped somewhere). Continue reading
Retrospective Application For Disputed Sidetrack at Brockham
Angus Energy are back at their well site at Feltons Farm, Old School Lane and have restarted pumping oil from one of their two existing wells. They have also submitted a planning application to Surrey County Council.
Frack Off April Newsletter: Fracking Industry Counts Cost Of More Delays
Contents Jump straight to: Introduction Take Action Latest News Actions & Events Planning Applications & Appeals Local Anti-Fracking Groups Introduction Over a year into the fracking industry’s latest offensive against local communities the sustained resistance it has provoked its having significant effects. Any major fracking project you can think of is either stalled or running […]
Weald Tight Oil Threat: Drilling Or Testing Planned At Five Fracking Sites
The fracking of large swathes of Sussex and Surrey for shale/tight oil is a growing threat with four major test sites already drilled and a fifth planned. In West Sussex, Broadford Bridge< near Billingshurst and Balcombe have already been drilled, while in Surrey
Local Communities Stand Up To Ineos Fracking Threat
Fracking company Ineos Upstream, a subsidiary of the chemical giant Ineos, is not having an easy time in its attempts to impose fracking on the communities living in its licence areas. So far all 3 of its planning applications for test sites have been refused, and must now go to costly appeals, while its fracking […]
Communities Mobilising To Resist Threat From Nottinghamshire Frack Pads
Trucks are rolling in an attempt to construct the East Midlands first fracking sites at Springs Road in Misson and Tinker Lane near Blyth, in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire. Frack Free Misson and Frack Free Tinker Lane, supported by groups from across the region and beyond, are resisting these ongoing construction efforts. In production fracking in the region could see thousands of wells drilled across the region, if not stopped. Continue reading
Lancashire Communities Continue To Resist Cuadrilla’s Fracking Plans
As an inquiry opens into Cuadrilla’s long stalled plans for a second fracking appraisal site at Roseacre Wood in Lancashire, the fact that work at its first site Preston New Road site is 8 months behind schedule and counting shows that official permission alone guarantees nothing if local communities are mobilised to resist Continue reading