Investigative journalist and environmental writer. Specialising in UK onshore oil and gas, fracking and the reaction to it.
Lancashire councillors agreed this afternoon to delay a decision on Cuadrilla’s proposals to frack at Preston New Road in the Fylde. The county council’s development control committee will consider the application again on Monday morning (29th June 2015) after taking legal advice on planning policy.
A discussion of Cuadrilla’s plans to frack at Preston New Road at Lancashire County Council ended in chaos in the past few minutes as the meeting was adjourned without a decision
A motion to refuse Cuadrilla’s plans to frack at Preston New Road has failed.
County councillors considering Cuadrilla’s application to frack at Preston New Road in the Fylde have gone into private session. The development control committee has already adjourned once this afternoon to decide on wording on a motion to refuse the application. Council planners had recommended the application be approved. […]
Lancashire county councillors discussing Cuadrilla’s planning application to frack at Preston New Road in the Fylde returned from their lunch break and immediately adjourned the meeting. Members of the development control committee are now discussing the wording of a motion to refuse the application to drill, frack and test […]
Lancashire County Council’s development control committee has adjourned for lunch without taking a vote on Cuadrilla’s application to frack at Preston New Road. The deputy chair of the committee, Kevin Ellard, has proposed a motion that the committee should refuse the application because it was against national and […]
As Lancashire councillors prepare to decide on Cuadrilla’s fracking applications, a senior academic has called for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing until more information is known about the risks of contamination.
Council planning officer, Stuart Perigo, said today there had been 18,106 objections to Cuadrilla’s application to frack at a site in the Fylde area of Lancashire. There had been 217 comments in support of the plans.
More than 20 people, many of them in business, explained this afternoon why they supported Cuadrillas’s plans to frack for shale gas at a site in the Fylde area of Lancashire.
DRILL OR DROP? 