Frack Off Newsletter October 2012 In this Month’s Newsletter: Scotland – UK’s first unconventional production wells land in Airth – Object Lancashire – Cuadrilla resources renewal of planning application – UK’s second EVER frack – Object Somerset – Coalbed methane company UK Methane versus Frack Free Somerset Sussex – Celtique Energy plans for 3000 wells […]
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Lancashire: Cuadrilla Creeping Consent
Cuadrilla executives haven’t worn their cute little helmets and blue jump suits for a while. Instead they are back at the planning office asking for permissions. This represents an unprecedented opportunity for local people, in fact everyone to get involved as the original permissions were granted with much less publicity. 50 local residents in Banks […]
Australia residents beat off Scottish gas drillers
After a combative stand off between residents of Fullerton Cove, Australia and gas company Dart Energy, the company has been forced to stop drilling. Dart – which also recently applied for planning permission to drill 22 new wells in Airth, Scotland, lost an injunction to drill for Coal Bed Methane until a full legal challenge has […]
Frack Attack: Application For Britain`s First Unconventional Gas Development
- First application for unconventional gas production in UK
- Submitted by Dart Energy in Falkirk And Stirling
- 14 new and 2 existing well sites
- 22 new coal bed methane wells
- About 20 km of pipelines
- 1 waste outfall into Firth of Forth
- 1 gas processing facility
- Plans for up to 600 more wells in area
- Beginning of massive attach on countryside
Lord Browne bails out Cuadrilla
Is Cuadrilla Resources – the UK’s first fracking company – running short of ready cash? A report by part-owner AJ Lucas shows Cuadrilla has spent $88m on developing its sites in Lancashire and Sussex (p 187). This is $5m more than the company raised in 2010, when Riverstone (chaired by Cabinet Office executive Lord Browne), […]
Shares slump at Cuadrilla owner as Aus tax bill looms
Shares in Cuadrilla part-owner AJ Lucas have slumped almost 50% after company documents revealed it had an unpaid $40m AUS tax bill. In a announcement to the Australian stock exchange AJ Lucas notes that a ‘funding shortfall’ together with a “significant reduction in cash flow … has resulted in the Company not being able to […]
Geomechanical Study Of Bowland Shale Seismicity, Cuadrilla Resources (2011)
The plot below shows a clear correlation between Cuadrillas fracking operations at Preese Hall Lancashire and sesimic activity in the area. The small circles are seismic events. By looking at the right hand axes you can see their size. The blue line shows the volume of water and chemicals injected into the well and out […]
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 […]