Tag: Blackpool

Cuadrilla’s fracking site to close

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 17, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

The Blackpool Gazette reports that Cuadrilla is to pull out of the only site in Britain where high pressure fracking has taken place. The paper reports a company statement that no further work would take place at Preese Hall, near Weeton, the site linked to two earth tremors […]

Cuadrilla quits Lancashire frack site “because of birds”

By Ruth Hayhurst on October 4, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

The Blackpool Gazette reports Cuadrilla has pulled out of one of its potential fracking sites on the Lancashire coast. The company says it will not seek consent to frack for gas at Anna’s Road in Westby because of “technical constraints related to wintering birds”. Drilling was restricted to a […]