Anti-fracking campaigners outside Lancashire County Council
Reports and pictures from the meetings that will decide Cuadrilla’s fracking applications on DrillOrDrop.com
Unite to join Frack-Free Lancashire demonstration in Preston
Britain’s largest union, Unite, has urged Lancashire County Council to block Cuadrilla’s applications to frack at two sites in the Fylde.
Council accused of unfairness and bias against opponents of Cuadrilla’s fracking applications
Some opponents of Cuadrilla’s plans to frack in the Fylde have suggested Lancashire County Council’s decision-making process is unfair and biased in favour of the company.
Don’t turn our back on fracking, says Chancellor
George Osborne told MPs yesterday Britain would be “condemned” to higher energy bills and fewer jobs if it turned its back on fracking.
The disappearing Telegraph fracking article revealed
Drill Or Drop is pleased to post a newspaper article about shale regulation, which disappeared off the Telegraph’s website in under 24 hours. The article was found by one of our readers and is included here so that it can be restored to the web for all but the […]
What Lancashire planners said about Cuadrilla’s application to frack at Preston New Road
Earlier today, Lancashire County Council planners recommended approval of Cuadrilla’s application to frack at Preston New Road in the Fylde. Drill Or Drop has been looking at the planners’ report to find out how they came up with this recommendation and what conditions they think should be imposed […]
80,000 copies of crowdfunded fracking leaflet distributed in a month – more planned
A crowdfunded leaflet about fracking is to be reprinted after distributing 80,000 copies in a month.
Residents oppose new rules allowing “lethal” chemical in oil and gas operation
A resident’s group in the West Sussex village of Balcombe is urging people to object to proposed regulations that would allow the standard use of dilute hydrofluoric acid in a drilling operation.
Cuadrilla’s plans mean wellpads 3km apart and practically every metre of the Fylde fracked, say campaigners
Opponents of fracking in Lancashire have published a map, which they say shows what the area would look like if Cuadrilla built its planned number of shale gas wellpads.
Gatwick oil find could be 70% higher than previously thought – not good news say Friends of the Earth
The volume of oil in the area round Gatwick could be 70% higher than previously estimated, according to UK Oil and Gas.
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