Environmental campaigners and community groups have welcomed this morning’s decision by Lancashire County Council to refuse more time for restoration of a controversial fracking site.
The former fracking company, Cuadrilla, has lost its bid for more time to restore its Lancashire shale gas site at Preston New Road, near Blackpool.
The Environment Agency has extended the consultation period at a second site where lower-volume fracking is planned in Yorkshire.
A second community group has asked for more time to comment on the environmental impact of fracturing plans in Yorkshire.
People are invited to comment on a bid by Cuadrilla to extend the life of its former fracking site near Blackpool. A public consultation runs until Thursday 7 August 2025.
The former fracking company, Cuadrilla, is seeking another five years to extract gas from its site at Elswick, in Lancashire.
Cuadrilla’s Australian owner has refinanced its debt, it announced this morning.
The industry regulator gave Cuadrilla more time to plug and abandon its shale gas wells at Preston New Road in Lancashire, DrillOrDrop has discovered.
The operators of a mothballed well site in an East Yorkshire village have been accused of apparently “misusing the planning system for their own benefit”.
Key equipment was installed today to decommission Cuadrilla’s fracked shale gas wells and work is expected to start imminently.
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