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Lancashire Fracking: Cuadrilla Now Wants To Frac 2 Wells It Has Drilled
As drilling rig parts begin leaving Preston New Road attention turns to resisting Cuadrilla’a plans to hydraulically fracture the two wells it has expended so much time and effort to drill. A whole new phase of the resistance to fracking in Lancashire is now beginning as Cuadrilla tries bring large amounts of hydraulic fracturing equipment […]
Fight Fracking This Summer – Free Training For Your Community
Free training is available for groups who want to take action against fracking – whether you’re already in a group or wanting to get more involved where you live! Workshops available: Getting your message out: media spokesperson training and press releases Protests and direct action: confidence and assertiveness, preparing for action, dealing with confrontation, protest […]
Industry Executives Face Jail In Underground Coal Gasification Trial
Linc Energy has been fined $4.5 million for polluting 320 square kilometers of the Darling Downs in Queensland Australia with hazardous contaminants but it is unlilely that the fine will ever be paid. The area used for this small test project is tiny in comparison to the massive licence areas issued for Underground Coal Gasification […]
Ineos Fracking Threat Grows After Winning Appeal To Central Government
Central government has overturned Rotherham Council’s decision not to give permission for Ineos to construct a fracking site near Harthill. In a rare win for Ineos, it has succeeded its appeal over plans to exploit the Bowland Shale, in its South Yorkshire/East Midlands license areas. Fracking company Ineos Upstream, a subsidiary of the chemical giant […]
Join The Fracking Resistance – 3 Months Of Events At Preston New Road
Join the community in Lancashire for 3 months of creative action. More Details: www.twitter.com/UnitedResist www.facebook.com/UnitedResistanceUK www.frackfreelancashire.org/
Lancashire Fracking Tentacles Spread From Aberdeen To Great Yarmouth
This week’s demos outside ARR Craib and RTH-Lubbers in Aberdeen, two companies which have been supplying the Cuadrilla Resources fracking site at Preston New Road in Lancashire, highlight the national nature of the fracking threat. Just because a fracking site is in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire or Surrey does not mean that that impacts will be limited to the region in question. Thousands of tons of dangerous frack sand and chemicals are needed for each site (and have to come from somewhere), and the millions of gallons of fracking waste produced by a site also have to be moved by road (and be dumped somewhere). Continue reading
Weald Tight Oil Threat: Drilling Or Testing Planned At Five Fracking Sites
The fracking of large swathes of Sussex and Surrey for shale/tight oil is a growing threat with four major test sites already drilled and a fifth planned. In West Sussex, Broadford Bridge< near Billingshurst and Balcombe have already been drilled, while in Surrey
Local Communities Stand Up To Ineos Fracking Threat
Fracking company Ineos Upstream, a subsidiary of the chemical giant Ineos, is not having an easy time in its attempts to impose fracking on the communities living in its licence areas. So far all 3 of its planning applications for test sites have been refused, and must now go to costly appeals, while its fracking […]