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The Frack Stops Here – LIVE UPDATES
Live updates from The Frack Stop Here! in Preston, Lancashire: Weds, 9am: Hundreds of people from across Lancashire and beyond converge on County Hall in Preston Weds, 10am: Development control meeting begins with large numbers of people inside the chamber and more outside Weds, 11am: Development control committee has left the chamber so that they […]
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Daneshill Day 1 (Thur 27th March)
A protector has locked to the top of the gate to the Daneshill site. Two more are on top of a lorry carrying a generator stopped in the road. Only a few loads managed to accessed the site very early this morning. A few local police and some police liaison officers have arrived. More trucks […]
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Daneshill Day 0 (Wed 26th March)
The rig which Dart Energy are renting from PR Marriot Drilling has left their fracking site at Farndon, Cheshire and is presumably on its way to the next site at Daneshill, Sutton cum Lound near Retford in North Nottinghamshire (see photo of similar packed down rig on left). The community there is in need of […]
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The Big Rig Revolt – Saturday 1st December
A dark cloud is gathering. The threat of unconventional gas development hangs over us all. With almost 100 test wells permitted and the first production development threatening Scotland, the government’s dash for gas depends on the creeping sell off of the British Isles. This cabal of opportunistic extraction companies, government mandarins and political jokes think […]
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Fracking on trial: the verdict
A woman from Bristol who climbed a drilling rig in a protest against fracking in December last year was today found guilty under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act at Preston Magistrates Court. She was ordered to pay a £250 fine and £750 costs. Yesterday two other defendants were cleared of charges of aggravated […]
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Lawfulness of Cuadrilla’s fracking operation remains in doubt
Yesterday, three people were on trial for a second day at Preston Magistrates Court following their action which shut down Cuadrilla Resources’ hydraulic fracturing site beside the Ribble Estuary in Lancashire in December 2011. Two of the defendants went free when it became clear that the charges against them had been poorly framed. They had […]
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Fracking on trial – again!
The safety of fracking will be challenged at Preston Magistrates Court this week, as 3 people go on trial following a protest at Cuadrilla’s Hesketh Bank site, Lancashire, in December last year. The trial is expected to last until Thursday. On 1 December 2011, protestors from Bristol Rising Tide occupied the test drilling rig, shutting […]
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Guest blog: Paul Mobbs responds to Monbiot on peak oil vs. climate change
Paul Mobbs posted this gem on the “No Shale Gas UK” email list and we couldn’t resist asking him for permission to republish it here. Please note that sections in bold/italic are our emphasis. You can read George Monbiot’s original article that inspired this response here. I’ve sat patiently through the various emails between you […]
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