Fylde Council calls for immediate local ban on “unsafe” fracking
The Conservative-led council in the area of Cuadrilla’s shale gas site has called on regulators to ban local fracking immediately on safety grounds.
Frack pumps leave Preston New Road as campaigners mark 1,000 days of protest
Cuadrilla moved the frack pumps off its shale gas site near Blackpool today on the 1,000th day of protest by opponents.
October 2019 headlines
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October 2019 diary
Events in October 2019 and beyond about UK fracking, onshore oil and gas and campaigning The Art of Activism – event marking 1,000 days of protest at Preston New Road Energy UK annual conference UK Onshore Gas & Oil Summit Fossil-Free Gathering
No more UK fracking in 2019 as Cuadrilla runs out of time after record-breaking tremor
Cuadrilla has confirmed no more fracking will take place at its shale gas site in Lancashire before a planning deadline at the end of November.
Cuadrilla sent office staff to check property damage from UK’s biggest fracking earth tremor
Initial assessments of damage caused by the UK’s largest fracking-induced earth tremor were made by staff from the Cuadrilla’s headquarters, not professional surveyors or insurance experts.
Cuadrilla fracked seven times before record-breaking tremor – official logs
Cuadrilla fracked just seven times at its Preston New Road site near Blackpool last month before inducing a record-breaking earth tremor.
Cuadrilla warned over three more permit breaches at fracking site
Cuadrilla has received an official warning over failing to monitor groundwater properly at its Preston New Road fracking site.
Judge dismisses campaigners’ bid to quash Cuadrilla injunction
Three anti-fracking campaigners have failed in their legal challenge to quash Cuadrilla’s injunction against protests at the Preston New Road shale gas site near Blackpool. They said they would seek permission to appeal.
Suspended jail sentences for anti-fracking campaigners who breached Cuadrilla’s injunction
The first anti-fracking campaigners found in contempt of court in the UK for breaching a protest injunction received suspended prison sentences this morning.
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