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Fighting Fracking In 2015: A Year Of Delays And Community Victories

Fighting Fracking In 2015: A Year Of Delays And Community Victories

…ampaigning in North Antrim on the North Coast of Ireland, fracking company Rathlin Energy (also active in East Yorkshire) have quit on their planning application and exploration licence! As with their exploration in East Yorkshire Rathlin was trying to piggyback fracking exploration on a conventional well, with plans to drill deeper to sample a shale formation. Awesome work, once again proving community organising gets the goods! November –… Continue reading

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Land South West Of Crawberry Hill

…that it is abandoning its exploratory well at this site. Read more… Rathlin Energy attempted to frack a shale gas exploration well at this site at Walkington near Beverley in East Yorkshire. The well was drilled in Aug 2013 under the guise of being purely conventional, but also penetrated the Bowland Shale to take core samples. Rathlin continued testing the well, including a mini-frac on the Bowland Shale to test whether it is possible to h… Continue reading

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West Newton B Wellsite Crook Lane Burton Constable

West Newton B Wellsite Crook Lane Burton Constable

…East Riding Of Yorkshire… Continue reading

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West Newton Day 44 (Mon 23rd Jun)

West Newton Day 44 (Mon 23rd Jun)

…Aerial Photo Of Rathlin Energy’s West Newton Fracking Site In East Yorks (Click To Enlarge) Rathlin Energy’s fracking site at West Newton was drilled in 2013 but Rathlin now wants to return to perform a mini-frac on the Bowland Shale…. Continue reading

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Crawberry Hill Day 22 (Sun 1st Jun)

Crawberry Hill Day 22 (Sun 1st Jun)

…Camp Outside Rathlin Energy’s Crawberry Hill Fracking Site In Walkington, Yorks (Click To Enlarge) Busy day at camp outside Rathlin Energy’s Crawberry Hill fracking site with lots of supports coming by to visit. See below for more photos…. Continue reading

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Crawberry Hill Day 10 (Tues 20th May)

Crawberry Hill Day 10 (Tues 20th May)

…Media At Camp Resisting Rathlin Energy’s Crawberry Hill Fracking Site In Walkington, Yorks (Click To Enlarge) People have been continuing to set up a camp at the Crawberry Hill fracking site to resist Rathlin Energy…. Continue reading

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Crawberry Hill Day 11 (Weds 21st May)

Crawberry Hill Day 11 (Weds 21st May)

…Camp Resisting Rathlin Energy’s Crawberry Hill Fracking Site In Walkington, Yorks (Click To Enlarge) People have been continuing to set up a camp at the Crawberry Hill fracking site to resist Rathlin Energy…. Continue reading

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West Newton Day 22 (Sun 1st Jun)

West Newton Day 22 (Sun 1st Jun)

…Camp Outside Rathlin Energy’s West Newton Fracking Site In East Yorks (Click To Enlarge) Rathlin Energy has been reinforcing the fencing at its fracking site at West Newton in East Yorkshire. Meanwhile the community has been building the camp to help resist. See below for more photos…. Continue reading

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