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Fracking Lancashire: Cuadrilla Pauses Fracking After Largest Earthquake Yet
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). Continue reading
Fracking Lancashire: 11 Earthquakes So Far And Intensity Increasing
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). Continue reading
Fracking Trucks: Sand In, Waste Out – Where Will It Be Dumped?
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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Fracking Lancashire: Communities Rally Against Cuadrilla’s Frac Site
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, and has already caused 5 small earthquakes in 3 days. Cuadrilla are planning to frac […]
Fracking Lancashire: First Few Stages Of First Well Cause 5 Earthquakes
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 are small (so far), they are almost always powerlaw distributed, so for every few small […]
Stop The Start Of Fracking – Massive Industrialisation Threat After 7 Years Of Delays
Frack Free Lancashire – Come to Maple Farm next to Cuadrilla’s fracking site at Preston New Road to make a stand against this unwanted toxic “zombie” industry. Tell Cuadrilla that we have said no and that we will continue to say no. * No to fracking at Preston New Road * No to fracking at […]
People Protecting Lancashire Jailed As Cuadrilla Prepare To Frack Site
As fracking company Cuadrilla Resources prepares to carry out hydraulic fracturing operations on 2 wells it has drilled at Preston New Road in Lancashire, the state is ramping up oppression against the communities resisting these developments. More than 300 people have been arrested since Cuadrilla began constructing a fracking pad at the site in January […]
The UK’s First Anti-Fracking Community Group Stops Fracking Site
Back in 2011 when speculative fracking outfit Cuadrilla Resources started drilling sites across Lancashire, the UK’s first andti-fracking community group was formed. Ribble Estuary Agains Fracking (REAF) got organised to oppose Cuadrilla’s drill site on farmland surrounded by fields of cabbages and an RSPB reserve. The group have doggedly pursued Cuadrilla for nearly 7 years […]