Monthly Archives: January 2020

Fighting Fracking In 2019: Industry Crumbling In Face of Sustained Resistance

Fighting Fracking In 2019: Industry Crumbling In Face of Sustained Resistance

  • Breakthrough year fails to materialise, again
  • Even worse than 2018 for fracking industry
  • Even when industry manages to drill/frac wells
  • Result has usually not been good for them
  • Cuadrilla halted again by quakes in Lancashire
  • Larger quake prompts countrywide “pause”
  • Unlikely to last for long, but blow to industry
  • Lots of industry activity but little real progress
  • Sussex/Surrey currently most threatened
  • Strong community opposition slowing industry
  • 2020 likely to another long slog for industry
  • Burning though investment cash for little gain
  • This is a battle which we cannot afford to lose

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