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10+ years of independent journalism on UK fracking, onshore oil and gas and the reactions to it

Call for delay to Burniston gas decision over planning policy shift

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 22, 2025

Government to rule on Waddock Cross environmental study

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 18, 2025

Horse Hill – key details delayed

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 17, 2025

Breaking: Oil companies drop Biscathorpe appeal

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 15, 2025

UKOG reveals reasons for Weald licence surrender

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 12, 2025

Broadford Bridge clean-up imminent, says council

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 11, 2025

Cuadrilla fracking decision: what the opponents said about Roseacre Wood plans

By Ruth Hayhurst on June 26, 2015 • ( 12 Comments )

More than 15,600 people objected to Cuadrilla’s application to frack at Roseacre Wood and signatories to petitions against the plans totalled more than 91,000. Nearly 30 people gave evidence against the scheme at the planning meeting. Many were concerned about the impact of Cuadrilla’s fracking plans on their health, […]

Councillors refuse Roseacre Wood fracking application but approve seismic monitoring scheme

By Ruth Hayhurst on June 25, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

Lancashire councillors voted unanimously to refuse Cuadrilla’s planning application to frack up to four wells at Roseacre Wood. But they approved the company’s scheme for 88 seismic monitoring stations and three monitoring boreholes around Roseacre. The results were received in silence in the council chamber at county hall in […]

Committee warned it would be breaking the law if it refused Preston New Road application, councillor reveals

By Ruth Hayhurst on June 25, 2015 • ( 14 Comments )

There are questions tonight about the legal advice given verbally to Lancashire councillors who have been considering Cuadrilla’s application to frack at Preston New Road. One member of the county council committee which will decide the plan said tonight councillors were told they would be breaking the law if […]

Breaking: Cuadrilla’s Roseacre Wood fracking application refused

By Ruth Hayhurst on June 25, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

Lancashire county council’s development control committee has voted unanimously to refuse Cuadrilla’s application to frack at Roseacre Wood in the Fylde. Councillors agreed that the application was contrary to local planning policy on traffic grounds. More detail coming soon

Updated news from Roseacre Wood fracking application meeting – day 1

By Ruth Hayhurst on June 25, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

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 […]

Friends of the Earth reaction to deferral of fracking decision

By Ruth Hayhurst on June 24, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

Reacting to today’s decision by Lancashire councillors to adjourn the decision on Cuadrilla’s planning application to test frack at Preston New Road until Monday (29 June), Friends of the Earth’s senior energy campaigner Liz Hutchins said: “This shows just how contentious this polluting industry is. Despite a massive […]

Cuadrilla fracking decision: Day 2 in pictures

By Ruth Hayhurst on June 24, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

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.

Cuadrilla’s fracking decision: what the councillors said about Preston New Road plans

By Ruth Hayhurst on June 24, 2015 • ( 4 Comments )

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.

Chaotic scenes as Preston New Road fracking decision adjourned to Monday

By Ruth Hayhurst on June 24, 2015 • ( 2 Comments )

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

Breaking: Vote to refuse Cuadrilla’s fracking plans defeated

By Ruth Hayhurst on June 24, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

A motion to refuse Cuadrilla’s plans to frack at Preston New Road has failed.

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