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Fighting Fracking In 2019: Industry Crumbling In Face of Sustained Resistance
…the Bowland Shale at nearby Tinker Lane where it recently drilled a well. IGas is now gambling that it will have more luck 10 miles down the road in Misson. Frack Free Misson and Frack Free Tinker Lane, supported by groups from across the region and beyond, are resisting these ongoing drilling efforts. IGas has plans to drill up to two test wells, including one horizontal well, at Springs Road, and has already drilled one test well at Tinker Lane… Continue reading
Upton Day 581 (Fri 6th Nov)
…Local People Demonstrate There Opposition To IGas’s Plans Outside The Court In Manchester (Click To Enlarge) IGas in court in Manchester trying to get a possession order so they can try to evict the camp in Upton. Large demonstration outside the court. IGas granted possession order which comes into effect on 4th Dec…. Continue reading
Fracking Greenwash: Revenge Of The Frackademics
…ritish Columbia, of Nexen Inc. (largest shareholder in UK fracking company IGas Energy), one of a number of fracking companies in which Jeremy Grantham is heavily invested Dig deep enough into any big pro-fracking spin effort in the UK and you will usually find the extremely well connected Lord Browne of Madingley, Chairman of Cuadrilla Resources and ex-CEO of BP, pulling the strings. In this case you don’t have to dig that much because Lord… Continue reading
Communities Mobilising To Resist Threat From Nottinghamshire Frack Pads
…sands of wells drilled across the region, if not stopped. Fracking company IGas Energy has plans to drill up to two test wells, including one horizontal well, at Springs Road and one test well at Tinker Lane. The site at Springs Road in Misson, is inside the old MOD rocket site (now Jacksons arms dealers), while the Tinker Lane site is on farm land near the A634. The licence blocks covering the area, PEDL 140 for Springs Road and PEDL 200 for Tink… Continue reading
Frack Off Feb/Mar Newsletter: National Day Of Action, Lancashire & More
…and Yorkshire are under increasing threat from fracking companies such as IGas Energy, Ineos Upstream, UKOG and Third Energy (see below). The 2 years of fracking drilling and testing Cuadrilla has planned at Preston New Road in Lancashire would also send 20,000 fracking trucks spreading out across the country with numerous impacts far from Lancashire (e.g. fracking waste being dumped or transported through your community – see below for det… Continue reading
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Recruiting Begins For Survey In North Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire
…n Iraq to guard its sites in Lancashire, as well as Gurkas from G4S, while IGas acquired its Misson fracking site from an arms dealer whose chief executive has been convicted of selling military vehicles to Sudan in breach of an arms embargo. Arturius International is logistics company based in Wiltshire which was formed in 2013 by planners and project managers from the British, French and US Armed Forces. The company claims to have “special… Continue reading
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Fracking Yorkshire: Rathlin Energy`s Plans Revealed
…ge) While the big three fracking companies in the UK, Cuadrilla Resources, IGas Energy and Dart Energy, have been bogged in high profile battles with local communities in Lancashire, Falkirk, Sussex and now Salford, various other companies with an interest in fracking have been trying to stay under the radar, mostly by disguising their activities as conventional exploration. Celtique Energy’s attempts at this in West Sussex have not proved o… Continue reading
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Fighting Fracking In 2016: A Year Of Community Resistance Costs Frackers
…protection camp and an eviction that cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. IGas have temporarily thrown in the towel. This is by no means the end of the fight to protect this part of the Cheshire from fracking, but it’s a massive delay and a massive victory. Faced with this level of local and regional opposition the industry needs to try something else. What that will be and when is anyone’s guess. But for now – it’s time t… Continue reading
