“Secret cameras used to protect Ineos equipment”, trial told
Security staff working for Ineos used covert surveillance after equipment used to explore for shale gas was damaged, a court heard today.
99-hour anti-fracking protest “caused travel delays and cost £1,000s”, sentencing hearing told
An anti-fracking protest that lasted nearly 100 hours caused travel disruption and incurred extra costs for Lancashire Police and the shale gas company, Preston Crown Court heard this afternoon.
Government faces second legal challenge over new planning rules on fracking
A second environmental group is taking legal action against the government over its new planning policy on fracking and onshore oil and gas.
Breaking: High Court curtails wide-ranging UKOG injunction against oil site protests
A High Court judge has scaled back an injunction sought by UK Oil & Gas plc to outlaw direct action protests outside its sites in Sussex and Surrey.
Dame and Baroness threaten to breach Cuadrilla’s fracking protest injunction
A Dame and a Baroness have said they are willing to break the injunction against protests outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site near Blackpool.
Learn suffragette lessons, say sisters found guilty of obstruction at shale gas site
Two sisters given absolute discharges after guilty verdicts for obstruction at a shale gas in Nottinghamshire have likened their anti-fracking actions to the votes for women movement.
What’s happening this week? 16-22 July 2018
In this week’s listings Court case in York of anti-fracking campaigner Meet the Regulators drop-in Lincolnshire Gatherings outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site Public meetings Information events Diary for all of July 2018 and beyond. Please let us know here if you’d like us to add your events or if any […]
Cuadrilla injunction evidence based on “allegations, conjecture, exaggeration and hearsay”, court told
The shale gas company, Cuadrilla, was accused at the High Court today of trying to “demonise” anti-fracking protester to support its case for an injunction.
What’s happening this week? 9-15 July 2018
In this week’s listings Cases at the High Court on Cuadrilla protest injunction and Ineos access to Clumber Park Closing date for entries to British Photographic Journal Fractured Stories competition Deadline for comments on Ineos replacement application for Woodsetts in South Yorkshire Temporary seismic monitors due to be installed in […]
Campaigner loses appeal over “act of conscience” protest
A man who spent 10 hours on top of a rig lorry in protest to oil exploration has lost his appeal against conviction.
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