The drilling rig, delayed by a lock-on outside the gates earlier in the day, has arrived at the Tinker Lane fracking site near Blyth, in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire. Fracking company IGas Energy is preparing to drill a well on its East Midlands site, and the local community (see Frack Free Tinker Lane), supported by groups from across the region and beyond, are resisting these plans. In production fracking in the region could see thousands of wells drilled across the region, if not stopped.
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After a brief pause to amp up its media spin Cuadrilla Resources has restarted hydraulic fracturing at its flagship Preston New Road site in Lancashire, and unsurprisingly so have the earthquakes. The count is now up to 34 earthquakes in less than 2 weeks (the largest so far a magnitude 1.1), with a general trend of increasing size over time.
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Cuadrilla Resources has restarted hydraulic fracturing and immediately caused an even larger earthquake (magnitude 1.1) at its flagship Preston New Road site in Lancashire. The count is now up to 27 earthquakes in less than 2 weeks, with a general trend of increasing size over time. While the earthquakes are relatively small (so far), they are almost always powerlaw distributed, so for every few small ones you will one 10 times larger (and for every few of those you will get one 10 times larger than that).
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Cuadrilla Resources has pause hydraulic fracturing for 18 hours at its flagship Preston New Road site in Lancashire after it has caused 17 earthquakes (in a week), with a general trend of increasing size over time. While the earthquakes are relatively small (so far), they are almost always powerlaw distributed, so for every few small ones you will one 10 times larger (and for every few of those you will get one 10 times larger than that).
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Since Cuadrilla Resources began hydraulic fracturing the first of 2 wells at its flagship Preston New Road site in Lancashire it has caused 11 earthquakes (in a week), with a general trend of increasing size over time. While the earthquakes are relatively small (so far), they are almost always powerlaw distributed, so for every few small ones you will one 10 times larger (and for every few of those you will get one 10 times larger than that).
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Cuadrilla Resources has started hydraulic fracturing the first of 2 wells on its site at Preston New Road, and the impacts extend far beyond earthquakes or or for that matter Lancashire. Thousands of vehicle movements are required, and every fracking truck bringing something from somewhere, or is taking something somewhere.
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On Saturday in excess of 2000 people from communities across the country rallied outside the Cuadrilla Resources fracking site at Preston New Road site in Lancashire. Hydraulic fracturing of the first of 2 wells at the site began this week, […]
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Since Cuadrilla Resources began hydraulic fracturing the first of 2 wells at its flagship Preston New Road site in Lancashire it has caused 5 earthquakes (in 3 days), with a general trend of increasing size over time. While the earthquakes […]
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Preston New Road, Lancashire
Type: Shale Gas Appraisal Wells
Tinker Lane, Nottinghamshire
Type: Shale Gas Exploration Well
Misson, Nottinghamshire
Type: Shale Gas Exploration Well
Brockham, Surrey
Type: Tight/Shale Oil