In this week’s listings: Derbyshire debate on fracking and energy; Cuadrilla’s third live stream Q&A session on horizontal drilling at Lancashire site End of 750-mile anti-fracking campaigner’s cycle tour Buddhist monks bless water and air protectors at shale gas sites; Consultation deadline on Preston New Road permit.
DrillOrDrop’s December 2017 digest of news about fracking, shale and onshore oil and gas updated daily.
Revised plans for lorry deliveries to a second proposed fracking site in Lancashire would “put even more lives at risk”, a community group said today.
People who want to comment on plans for oil exploration in Balcombe – the West Sussex village at the centre of anti-fracking protests in 2013 – have two more days to submit their views.
In this week’s listing Expected publication of revised transport plans for Cuadrilla’s Roseacre Wood site; Closing date for comments on Cuadrilla’s Balcombe flow testing plans; March in Pickering against local fracking plans; Fracking benefit gig.
In this update on protests about fracking and the onshore oil and gas industry: MPs address anti-fracking rally at Ellesmere Port; Launch of protest policing report at Preston New Road; 12 protesters found guilty of obstructing the highway outside Cuadrilla’s site Visits by former Green Party and Lib […]
Anti-fracking campaigners have called on police to protect their civil right to protest. They were responding to a report published this morning alleging “confrontational and “aggressive” policing. Two police forces in fracking protest areas said they have a duty to balance the right to protest with rights […]
Large numbers of police are using aggressive tactics to make it hard for people to protest against fracking, according to a report published today.
12 people, including three councillors, have been found guilty of obstructing the highway after a lock-on protest outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site in July. But they were cleared of trades union charges which can carry a more serious penalty.
People living within 1.5km of Cuadrilla’s shale gas site in Lancashire are to share a £100,000 community benefit fund, the company confirmed today.
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