What’s happening this week? 16-22 January 2017
In this week’s events listing: continued protests at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site, consultation opening, presentations, debates, meetings, film screenings and training.
Fracking Week in Parliament: 9-13 January 2017
In the first Fracking Week in Parliament of 2017, MPs question the climate change minister over whether the Green Investment Bank will be allowed to fund fracking.
Climate change becomes fracking’s legal battle ground
The ministerial approval of plans for shale gas exploration in Lancashire is being challenged in the courts on climate change grounds.
Everything you always wanted to know about acidising
Guest post by Kathryn McWhirter Tomorrow (11 January 2017), North Lincolnshire Council is expected to decide on a plans for oil production at Egdon’s site at Wressle, near Scunthorpe. The application includes proposals for the little-discussed process of acidisation.
What’s happening this week?9-15 January 2017
Our first weekly events listing for 2017 features scheduled daily roadside protests outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site in Lancashire plus North Lincolnshire Council’s planning committee meeting to decide plans by Egdon for oil and gas production at Wressle.
Protest update: 1-6 January 2017
Tonight DrillOrDrop starts a new weekly update on protests about oil and gas developments across the UK. In this, the first post, we report from: Cuadrilla’s fracking site at Preston New Road, Little Plumpton in Lancashire Protection camp at Kirby Misperton in North Yorkshire, where Third Energy wants to frack […]
First INEOS shale gas exploration bid gets underway
The oil and chemicals firm INEOS has revealed details of what could be its first shale gas site in the UK.
Pressure mounts on Friends of the Earth anti-fracking campaign
Friends of the Earth is fighting off criticism from the shale gas company, Cuadrilla, and the advertising watchdog.
Work begins at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road fracking site
Cuadrilla announced this morning it was starting surface construction work at its shale gas exploration site at Preston New Road, near Little Plumpton in Lancashire.
Advertising watchdog warns Friends of the Earth over fracking claims
Friends of the Earth has agreed not to repeat claims it made in a leaflet about the effects of fracking.
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