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Farndon Day 19 (Mon 17th Mar)
Dart Energy have brought a drilling rig onto their Farndon fracking site and is planning to a coal bed methane (CBM) exploration well. The local community is mobilizing to resist, and a camp has now been setup outside the site. See below for more photos.
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Farndon Day 18 (Sun 16th Mar)
Dart Energy have brought a drilling rig onto their Farndon fracking site and is planning to a coal bed methane (CBM) exploration well. The local community is mobilizing to resist, with a large gathering outside the site today, and a camp has now been setup. See below for more photos.
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Farndon Day 11 (Sun 9th Mar)
Dart Energy have brought a drilling rig onto their Farndon fracking site and is planning to a coal bed methane (CBM) exploration well. The local community is mobilizing to resist, with a large gathering outside the site today. See below for more photos.
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Farndon Day 8 (Thurs 6th Mar)
Dart Energy have brought a drilling rig onto their Farndon fracking site and is planning to a coal bed methane (CBM) exploration well. The local community is mobilizing to resist. See below for more photos.
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Dart Frack Attack: New Midlands Multi-Well Program
- Dart Energy tied up fighting Scots communities
- Appealing application for first production in UK
- Now £24m GDF Suez investment driving activity
- 3-5 CBM well drilling campaign under way
- Shale gas exploration wells planned to follow
- Drilling rig being erected at site in Cheshire
- Well pad under construction at Daneshill, Notts
- 2 more sites in Cheshire and Wrexham lined up
- Exploration wells potentially just beginning
- Threat of thousands of wells across regions
- Local communities are mobilising in response
- Areas are new front in the fight against fracking
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Tagged Dart Energy, North West
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Farndon Day 1 (Thurs 27th Feb)
Dart Energy have brought in equipment to their Farndon fracking site and will be trying to erect a drilling rig in the coming days. The local community is mobilizing to resist. See below for more photos.
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Fracking Yorkshire: Rathlin Energy`s Plans Revealed
- Rathlin Energy have licence in East Yorkshire
- Openly exploring for conventional oil and gas
- Sneakily drilled 2 wells through Bowland Shale
- Now planning small test fracks on shale layer
- Producing 100,000 gallons of radioactive waste
- No information on where this would be dumped
- Would flare 5 million cubic feet of gas per day
- Producing toxic and carcinogenic air pollutants
- Aims to gather data for full hydraulic fracturing
- Could mean up to 3,000 wells in the licence
- Application for similar well in Northern Ireland
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Tagged Land South West Of Crawberry Hill, Rathlin, Yorkshire
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Radioactive Sources Brought To Salford Fracking Site
- Radioactive sources taken into Barton Moss
- Used for making measurements down well
- Schlumberger contracted to do the work by IGas
- Contact for extended periods very dangerous
- If damaged can release radioactive material
- Industry history of loss and mishandling sources
- Repeatedly lost during transport between sites
- Have turned up a month later at sides of roads
- Or in scrap metal shipments across the globe
- Mislaid radioactive sources very dangerous
- Have killed and injured hundreds of people
- Just in Texas over 400 sources lost down wells
- Likely to spread contamination as they degrade
- Fracking spreading use into local communities
- Thousands of wells mean many more sources