Recent research round-up: March 2016
This round-up looks at 30+ recent studies about fracking published since late October 2015. Please let us know if we’ve missed a report you think should be included. Click here to get in touch.
Swansea agrees to make fracking opposition official
Swansea Council voted last night to add a statement to local policy saying it would not support plans for unconventional oil and gas.
Live updates from Day 18 of Cuadrilla fracking inquiry: closing statements
Live news as it happens at the 18th day of the inquiry at Blackpool Football Club into Cuadrilla’s fracking plans for the Fylde area of Lancashire. Check our Inquiry page for more information, posts and links.
10 year old urges PM and the Queen to stop fracking – Cuadrilla inquiry
10 year old Joshua Mae read out a letter to David Cameron at the public inquiry into Cuadrilla’s shale gas plans, urging the Prime Minister to stop fracking. Joshua pleaded with Mr Cameron: “Don’t do bad things to our home”. And he asked the Prime Minister when he […]
20 questions: conditions for Cuadrilla’s proposed fracking sites
Today the Cuadrilla fracking inquiry turned to planning conditions that could be imposed if the proposed sites at Preston New Road and Roseacre Wood were approved.
Live updates from Cuadrilla fracking inquiry Day 16 – Newton-with-Clifton parish council and conditions
Live news as it happens at the 16th day of the inquiry at Blackpool Football Club into Cuadrilla’s fracking plans for the Fylde area of Lancashire. Check our Inquiry page for more information, posts and links. Today Cllr Peter Clifton, for Newton-with-Clifton Parish Council, is the last […]
Live updates on supporters of Cuadrilla’s fracking plans – day 15
Five supporters of Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road and Roseacre Wood plans give their views at the evening session on Day 15 of the inquiry. Opponents will follow. Their comments will be reported in a separate post. This is what the supporters said: Claire Smith 5.56pm Mrs Smith explained how she […]
“Elderly people need core sleep but they are not going to get it”, Cuadrilla fracking inquiry told
Cuadrilla’s proposed fracking site at Preston New Road would disturb the sleep of elderly people living nearby with serious consequences, the inquiry into the plans heard today.
Live updates from Cuadrilla fracking inquiry Day 15 – Preston New Road Action Group
Live news as it happens at the 15th day of the inquiry at Blackpool Football Club into Cuadrilla’s fracking plans for the Fylde area of Lancashire. Check our Inquiry page for more information, posts and links. Today Ashley Bowes, barrister for Preston New Road Action Group, begins his case against Cuadrilla’s […]
Fracking Week in Westminster and Holyrood– w/e 4th March 2016
In this special Fracking Week in Westminster: Kevin Hollinrake asks about community benefits from fracking Peter Aldous calls for realism over onshore shale In the Scottish Parliament, Labour and the SNP clash over INEOS and Scotland’s fracking moratorium
DRILL OR DROP? 