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New Fracking Sell-Off: Time To Get Organised
- New Fracking Licence Give Away Begins
- 27 New Exploration Licences Issued
- Covering Around 1,000 Square Miles
- IGas, Cuadrilla And INEOS Get More Licences
- As Well As New Fracking Players
- Plans To Give Away Another 132 Licences
- Covering Around 5,000 Square Miles
- Could Happen Within Months
- Many Communities Newly Threatened
- Now Is The Time To Get Organised
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Upton Day 480 (Tues 28th Jul)
Upton residents demonstrate their opposition to fracking outside a parish council meeting. Frack Free Upton have surveyed 2,121 households and 86% of the 2,284 residents consulted are against any form of exploration and development.
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The Frack Stops Here 2 – LIVE UPDATES
Cuadrilla Resources fracking plans for Preston New Road have been REFUSED!!! – See the time-line to refusal below… This decision has implications for the whole of the UK and Ireland: Lancashire Fracking Showdown – The Beginning Of A Larger Battle Timeline 29th June – Webcast 11.21am – The application for wider seismic monitoring works has […]
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Lancashire Fracking Showdown: The Beginning Of A Larger Battle
- Plans For Large New Lancashire Fracking Sites
- Council Considering Applications This Week
- Communities are mobilising to fight this threat
- If rejected will be appeal to central government
- Approval would just be beginning of long battle
- Would take 2 years to drill and frack the sites
- Cuadrilla gathering data to get more investment
- Level of community resistance will be decisive
- Communities blocking fracking across the globe
- Stakes are very high and not just for Lancashire
- Area where fracking pushed most aggressively
- Threat of thousands of wells across Lancashire
- Potentially tens of thousands across Britain
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Upton Day 427 (Fri 5th Jun)
Camp at Upton (near Chester) which is occupying land where IGas want to site a frack pad.
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Preston New Road Day 8 (Thurs 14th Aug)
The camp at Preston New Road is continuing to grow after being set up by local residents to oppose Cuadrilla Resources’ plans to construct the UK’s first multi-well shale gas frack pad at the site near Little Plumpton in Lancashire. See below for more photos.
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West Newton Day 96 (Thurs 14th Aug)
Rathlin Energy is continuing to conduct well testing on the site, part of which is to carry out a mini-frac on the Bowland Shale. See below for more photos.
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Preston New Road Day 7 (Weds 13th Aug)
The camp at Preston New Road is continuing to grow after being set up by local residents to oppose Cuadrilla Resources’ plans to construct the UK’s first multi-well shale gas frack pad at the site near Little Plumpton in Lancashire. Cuadrilla are clearly worried, and have gone as far as to setup cameras in a […]
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