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Lord Browne bails out Cuadrilla
Is Cuadrilla Resources – the UK’s first fracking company – running short of ready cash? A report by part-owner AJ Lucas shows Cuadrilla has spent $88m on developing its sites in Lancashire and Sussex (p 187). This is $5m more than the company raised in 2010, when Riverstone (chaired by Cabinet Office executive Lord Browne), […]
Fracking on trial: the verdict
A woman from Bristol who climbed a drilling rig in a protest against fracking in December last year was today found guilty under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act at Preston Magistrates Court. She was ordered to pay a £250 fine and £750 costs. Yesterday two other defendants were cleared of charges of aggravated […]
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Lawfulness of Cuadrilla’s fracking operation remains in doubt
Yesterday, three people were on trial for a second day at Preston Magistrates Court following their action which shut down Cuadrilla Resources’ hydraulic fracturing site beside the Ribble Estuary in Lancashire in December 2011. Two of the defendants went free when it became clear that the charges against them had been poorly framed. They had […]
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Fracking on trial – again!
The safety of fracking will be challenged at Preston Magistrates Court this week, as 3 people go on trial following a protest at Cuadrilla’s Hesketh Bank site, Lancashire, in December last year. The trial is expected to last until Thursday. On 1 December 2011, protestors from Bristol Rising Tide occupied the test drilling rig, shutting […]
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Osborne relative lunches Polish frackers
The revelation that the father-in-law of UK Chancellor George Osborne is a gas lobbyist provoked little surprise in Poland. As a Minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Osborne’s father-in-law, Lord Howell, has been enthusiastically promoting UK investment in Polish shale gas. In early June, Howell met the Polish economy, treasury and foreign affairs […]
Gas pollution seeps into government
The gas industry is not only environmentally irresponsible – it’s lobbyists, paid representatives and vested interests also pollute our democratic process. To do this, the industry uses a complex series of interventions to promote their case, almost all of it hidden from public view. Below we reveal some of the ways the gas industry exerts […]
Fracking fuels DECC renewables battle
The unexpected departure last week of the head Civil servant in DECC, Moira Wallace, shows the gas industry pushing for dominance of UK energy sector. Ostensibly over renewable energy subsidies, Wallace’s resignation illustrates a behind-the-scenes battle within government with the Chancellor, George Osbourne, firmly backing gas. In a recent letter to energy secretary Ed Davey […]
Fracking around with the law
- Fracking trial has throw up many legal issues
- Licences don’t appear to allow for fracking
- Strategic environmental assessment not done
- Planning applications duplicitous and probably illegal
- Lack of environmental impact assessments
- No consultation at any stage of process
- In US changed law, in UK just ignoring it
- Government more concerned with PR than regulation
- Impossible to regulate even if there was anyone who wanted to
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