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Woodburn Forest Fracking Blockade
NEWS FLASH FROM STOP THE DRILL!! – It’s all over for infrastrata in Woodburn. It’s a “dry hole”. Here’s the Press Release: “InfraStrata plc (AIM:INFA), the independent petroleum exploration and gas storage company, announces that drilling has been completed at Woodburn Forest in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The well was drilled to a depth of […]
Woolston and Thelwall Community Protection Camp
On this site very close to the Woolston ‘Eyes’ SSSI, IGas are proposing to drill though two aquifers to explore for Coal Bed Methane (CBM). CBM is the ‘evil twin’ of shale gas fracking. We see no need for this extreme technology to be used to recovery the last drops of gas when it won’t […]
Dudleston Community Protection Camp
Update July 2015 – The Access Licence with the landowner has lapsed for this site. Read more… The Dudleston Community Protection camp is situated at Brooklands Farm Dudleston Ellesmere Shropshire SY12 9JG. Once at the location, the camp can be found by heading towards the national grid pylon. There is an opening into the field […]
Preston New Road Community Fracking Blockade
Update 5th Jan 2017 – Cuadrilla has begun site construction. For more info and updates see the new PNR Blockade Page Update April 2015 – Significant works have already been carried out at Preston New Road by United Utilities. More info & pictures… Cuadrilla Resources wants to construct the UK’s first multi-well shale gas frack […]
Belcoo Community Fracking Blockade
Update May 2019 – Tamboran has made an application for a new Petroleum Licence covering a large area to the west of Upper Lough Erne and south of Lower Lough Erne. >Newspaper Report< >Consultation< In 2015 Tamboran Resources tried to drill a shale gas exploration well at Belcoo near Enniskillen in Fermanagh. The shale exploration […]
West Newton Community Fracking Blockade
Rathlin Energy is trying to frack a shale gas exploration well at their site at West Newton near Aldbrough in East Yorkshire. The well was drilled last summer under the guise of being purely conventional, but also penetrated the Bowland Shale to take core samples. Rathlin have now returned to continue testing the well, including […]
Barton Moss Community Fracking Blockade
In Autumn 2013 IGas Energy began trying to drill a combined coal bed methane (CBM) and Shale Gas exploration well at their fracking site in Barton Moss, Salford near Manchester. The local community mobilised to resist IGas’s plans and a camp was set up outside the site. See Fracking Manchester: IGas Threatens Barton Moss and […]
Crawberry Hill Community Fracking Blockade
Update 13/08/15 Rathlin has announced that it is abandoning its exploratory well at this site. Read more… Rathlin Energy is trying to frack a shale gas exploration well at their site at Crawberry Hill, Walkington near Beverley in East Yorkshire. The well was drilled last summer under the guise of being purely conventional, but also […]