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Lancashire Fracking Showdown: The Beginning Of A Larger Battle
- Plans For Large New Lancashire Fracking Sites
- Council Considering Applications This Week
- Communities are mobilising to fight this threat
- If rejected will be appeal to central government
- Approval would just be beginning of long battle
- Would take 2 years to drill and frack the sites
- Cuadrilla gathering data to get more investment
- Level of community resistance will be decisive
- Communities blocking fracking across the globe
- Stakes are very high and not just for Lancashire
- Area where fracking pushed most aggressively
- Threat of thousands of wells across Lancashire
- Potentially tens of thousands across Britain
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Cuadrilla Resources Planning Breaches & Technical Failures
After 5 years Cuadrilla Resources dismal track record speaks volumes. Behind their continuing PR effort the company has blundered into a series of planning breaches and technical failures that are listed in detail below. As storm clouds gather over the US fracking industry and the evidence of destruction and harm continues to mount, Cuadrilla’s UK […]
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Pictures Reveal Scale of Preston New Road Pipeline Works
This picture overlays Cuadrilla’s proposed Preston New Road site with United Utilities pipeline work. The site and access track will cover a large area of two fields. 190m of hedgerow and two trees will have to be removed to establish the road access. Access westbound on the A583 will be at the east end of […]
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The Frack Stops Here – LIVE UPDATES
Live updates from The Frack Stop Here! in Preston, Lancashire: Weds, 9am: Hundreds of people from across Lancashire and beyond converge on County Hall in Preston Weds, 10am: Development control meeting begins with large numbers of people inside the chamber and more outside Weds, 11am: Development control committee has left the chamber so that they […]
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Fracking Scotland: Time To Get Organised
- 4 Frackers focused on the Midland Valley
- Dart Energy, INEOS, Cluff and Reach CSG
- UK’s first production application at Airth
- Outcome of Dart’s planning appeal imminent
- Dart have permission to drill at Skinflats
- Production plans for 1,300 wells in PEDL 133
- IGas acquire Dart to access 1m acres of UK
- 5 UCG licences already sold in Firth of Forth
- Cluff Natural Resources plans at Largo Bay
- More than 1 billion tons of coal targeted
- Extraction would require over 4,000 wells
- Plans to sell all Central Belt to frackers
- 14th Onshore License round happening now
- Communities getting organised to resist threat
- Now is the time to get informed and organised
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New Lancashire Threat: Cuadrilla`s Fracking Plans
- Cuadrilla submits new planning application
- Large pad with 4 horizontal shale gas wells
- Plan to be drilled and fracked over 2 years
- Second site nearby, application public soon
- Plans tailored to hide impacts at this stage
- Trying to advance project without opposition
- But application reveals many lurking issues
- Would become critical at production stage
- One site takes 7% of region’s spare water
- Full scale fracking would overwhelm system
- Threat to water supply of 6.6 million people
- Site would use 65% of fracking waste capacity
- Vast new frac waste disposal system needed
- Most waste not treatable, would accumulate
- Site requires over 20,000 vehicle movements
- Production needs water/waste storage ponds
- Wake up call for communities to get organised
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Fracking The East Midlands: Total Distraction
- Oil giant Total plans £30 million investment
- Mostly in Nottinghamshire and Doncaster
- However most of East MIdlands threatened
- Coalbed Methane (CBM) as well as Shale Gas
- Coal more widespread than shale in region
- CBM exploration wells already drilled by Dart
- Shale Companies: eCorp, Egdon and Dart
- Dart: £24 million Investment From GDF Suez
- CBM Companies: Dart and IGas
- Both fighting other Communities at present
- Threat of Thousands of Wells in Medium Term
- UCG also lurking Threat in the Region
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Creeping Inferno: Underground Coal Gasification Threat Comes Onshore
- New UCG licence application submitted
- Onshore in Warwickshire countryside
- 24 licences in UK already given away
- All blocks just off the coast up until now
- Could open door for UCG to move onshore
- UCG involves burning coal underground
- Toxic/Carcinogenic tars are a byproduct
- Long history of contaminating groundwater
- Large amounts of toxic waste produced
- Larger area, including Coventry, threatened
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