Reporting of the regulation of the shale oil and gas and hydraulic fracturing industry, including planning permissions and permits
We’ll be updating this page regularly with the latest from today’s meeting of Lancashire County Council’s development control committee in the council chamber at County Hall in Preston. The meeting is considering Cuadrilla’s application to drill, frack and test up to four wells at Roseacre Wood. But it began […]
After today’s meeting Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, told Drill or Drop she had tremendous respect for the campaign groups which had been opposing Cuadrilla’s application.
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 […]
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.
Councillors who will decide Cuadrilla’s fracking applications in Lancashire later this week have been sent a new report which says shale gas exploration is potentially a significant source of air, land and water pollution.
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