Tag: earthquake

Seismic surveying could have avoided Lancashire fracking earthquakes, leading geologist tells conference

By Ruth Hayhurst on March 5, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

5th March 2014 UK Shale conference report 4 Professor Peter Styles, one of the UK’s leading experts on seismicity, said the Blackpool earthquakes in 2011 might have been avoided if Cuadrilla had carried out 3d seismic surveys before it fracked.

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 […]