Pink Footed Geese feeding on a wildfowl refuge set up by fracking company Cuadrilla were shot by hunters who had leased the same fields. Cuadrilla rented land on the Lancashire coast as winter grazing for birds displaced by its exploratory gas well at Becconsall, near Banks. However shooting rights on the land had already been […]
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Blog Cuadrilla Resources Planning Breaches & Technical Failures
After 5 years Cuadrilla Resources dismal track record speaks volumes. Behind their continuing PR effort the company has blundered into a series of planning breaches and technical failures that are listed in detail below. As storm clouds gather over the US fracking industry and the evidence of destruction and harm continues to mount, Cuadrilla’s UK […]
Blog Becconsall Exploration Site – Timeline 2010-14
27th July 2010 – Cuadrilla submits application 08/10/0973 for an exploratory borehole and testing of hydrocarbons 20th October 2010 – Lancashire County Council approves application 08/10/0973. Work to be completed within 18 months of commencement and conditions include an ecological method statement to protect wintering birds 1st February 2011 – Lease begins between Reaper Ltd. […]
Uncategorized Living with an Anti-fracking Camp – A Chester Resident`s Experience
The following guest-blog was written by Paul Beers. Paul is a resident of Upton, A suburb of Chester threatened by fracking company Dart Energy (recently bought by IGas Energy). Upton hosts a Community Protection Camp set-up on land that has all the required permissions for IGas to start work. The camp celebrated it’s 1 year […]
Blog Pictures Reveal Scale of Preston New Road Pipeline Works
This picture overlays Cuadrilla’s proposed Preston New Road site with United Utilities pipeline work. The site and access track will cover a large area of two fields. 190m of hedgerow and two trees will have to be removed to establish the road access. Access westbound on the A583 will be at the east end of […]
Uncategorized The Frack Stops Here – LIVE UPDATES
Live updates from The Frack Stop Here! in Preston, Lancashire: Weds, 9am: Hundreds of people from across Lancashire and beyond converge on County Hall in Preston Weds, 10am: Development control meeting begins with large numbers of people inside the chamber and more outside Weds, 11am: Development control committee has left the chamber so that they […]
Blog Fracking Scotland: Time To Get Organised
- 4 Frackers focused on the Midland Valley
- Dart Energy, INEOS, Cluff and Reach CSG
- UK’s first production application at Airth
- Outcome of Dart’s planning appeal imminent
- Dart have permission to drill at Skinflats
- Production plans for 1,300 wells in PEDL 133
- IGas acquire Dart to access 1m acres of UK
- 5 UCG licences already sold in Firth of Forth
- Cluff Natural Resources plans at Largo Bay
- More than 1 billion tons of coal targeted
- Extraction would require over 4,000 wells
- Plans to sell all Central Belt to frackers
- 14th Onshore License round happening now
- Communities getting organised to resist threat
- Now is the time to get informed and organised