Breaking: Vote to refuse Cuadrilla’s fracking plans defeated
A motion to refuse Cuadrilla’s plans to frack at Preston New Road has failed.
Lancs councillors go into private session on Cuadrilla fracking application
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. […]
Lancs councillors adjourn to discuss wording
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 […]
Breaking: LCC committee adjourns before vote
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 […]
Edinburgh geology professor calls for fracking ban to investigate risks of faults
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.
Cuadrilla’s fracking decision: what council officers said about Preston New Road plans
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.
Cuadrilla fracking decision: what supporters said about the Preston New Road 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.
Cuadrilla fracking decision : day 1 in pictures
Cuadrilla fracking decision: what objectors said about the Preston New Road plans
Nearly 50 people gave evidence today against Cuadrilla’s proposal to frack at Preston New Road in the Fylde area of Lancashire.
Anti-fracking campaigners outside Lancashire County Council
Reports and pictures from the meetings that will decide Cuadrilla’s fracking applications on DrillOrDrop.com
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