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News 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
News Queensland Underground Coal Gasification Time Bomb Explodes
A flagship project cited by proponents of Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) in the UK has resulted in criminal charges against the directors of an Australian company. It has taken seven years for the damage to come to light but Linc Energy’s directors now face massive fines and possible jail sentences. The Queensland Government has uncovered […]
News 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 […]
Blog 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