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New Fracking Sell-Off: Time To Get Organised
…ds Hutton Energy SK72 Coronation (Oil and Gas) East Midlands IGas Energy SK49 Total, Egdon East Midlands IGas Energy SK87c Total, Egdon East Midlands IGas Energy SK88b Total, Egdon East Midlands IGas Energy SK89e Total, Egdon East Midlands IGas Energy SK99a East Midlands IGas Energy TF18b East Midlands INEOS SK45 East Midlands INEOS SK48 East Midlands INEOS SK58a North West Osprey SD61 OK Energy (Onshore), Energy Development And Investments UK Eas… Continue reading
Fracking Company IGas Threaten 2 Sites In Nottinghamshire
Fracking company IGas Energy Ltd have submitted another planning application to explore for shale gas in Nottinghamshire. They now have 2 live planning applications for sites at Tinkers Lane near Blyth, and Springs Road near Misson. The Misson site also has a live EA Mining Waste Permit Application. Both of these applications stop short of full scale hydraulic fracturing. This tactic is increasingly common as fracking companies attempt to drill w… Continue reading
IGAS PRO-FRACKING ‘INFO EVENT’ TUES 11TH – ELLESMERE PORT – BE THERE!
…ery large 3D seismic survey is currently being planned by fracking company IGas between Ellesmere Port and Chester in the North West of England. Communities are mobilising to oppose this work – but in the interim all information from residents who live in the area is crucial. Surveys are a great opportunity for intervention and must be opposed as part of our efforts to defend our communities from fracking. Want to join the anti-fracking figh… Continue reading
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Tinker Lane
…er 2015. Bassetlaw District Council is consulting its lawyers over whether IGas has broken planning rules. More details IGas Energy plans to construct a shale gas exploration site off the A634 between Barnby Moor and Blyth. Initially IGas plans (PDF) to drill one well to core sample the shale, as well as a number of small monitoring boreholes in vicinity. French utility company GDF Suez has a 25 percent stake in IGas’s licence block covering… Continue reading
Seismic Surveys: The Fracking Spearhead
…8220;extensive 3D seismic surveys across a number of licence areas”. IGas’s seismic contractor of choice appears to be Canadian company Tesla Exploration. IGas now appear to have their sights set on obtaining 100 square kilometres of 3D data near Glazebury, Warrington, between Manchester and Liverpool (see map at bottom). It is unclear exactly when IGas will try to push ahead with this survey, but another company, Aurora Energy Resourc… Continue reading
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Coal Bed Methane: The Evil Twin of Shale Gas
…Energy, IGas Energy (Cheshire) and UK Methane (South Wales). In particular IGas Energy and Dart Energy (who bought out the the previous company Composite Energy) are already producing gas on a small scale. IGas has a well at Doe Green near Warrington that is producing gas to generate electricity. Their CEO, Andrew Austin, admitted to a parliamentary select committee in March 2011 that they have fracked the well. Greenpark Energy is also engaged in… Continue reading
Chemical Company Ineos New Fracking Threat After Deal
…ngemouth petrochemical plant in Scotland. The tie-up is designed to expand IGas’s fracking efforts with Ineos pledging an additional £138m to fund IGas exploration in the North West and East Midlands regions in England. The deal gives Ineos access to almost a quarter of a million acres of UK, and will likely mean that it become the UK’s third-largest fracking company behind IGas and Cuadrilla. Ineos has also applied for more license blocks a… Continue reading
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Another massive victory for UK anti-fracking community resistance!
…-that-they-won-t-be-drilling-at-planned-chester-sites.aspx Announcement on IGas Website: http://www.igas-engage.co.uk/project-upton-heath/ Frack Free Dee Coalition Website: http://www.frackfreedee.co.uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Frack-Free-Dee-Coalition-212828988927545/?fref=ts Twitter: @frackfreedee An organised community is THE best defence against the Fracking industry. Get our step-by-step guides and start planning an effective Anti-… Continue reading
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