In this week’s listings: the Tour de Frack cycle ride from Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site in Lancashire to Third Energy’s site at Kirby Misperton in North Yorkshire. Plus 30 other meetings, rallies, performances and key dates.
A Cuadrilla executive has predicted that shale gas from the company’s site at Preston New Road near Blackpool is likely to be used in local homes by early next year.
In this update of protests about fracking and the onshore oil and gas industry: Arrest of violinist at Cuadrlla’s Preston New Road shale gas site Blockade of A E Yates depot, Bolton Protest outside Barclays Bank in Blackpool Attempted blockade of Pete Marquis Contractors, Preston Fancy Dress Friday
In this week’s listings: energy ministers questioned by parliamentary select committee, plus performances, presentations, meetings, film screenings and four events near Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site.
A Lancashire resident has been refused permission to take court action against the Communities’ Secretary, Sajid Javid, over Cuadrilla’s second shale gas site at Roseacre Wood.
The fracking company, Cuadrilla, said today it had set up a viewing area for its Preston New Road shale gas site near Blackpool.
In a brief court hearing at 9.30 this morning, the High Court judge Sir Ian Dove dismissed two legal challenges to the ministerial approval of Cuadrilla’s plans for fracking at a site in Lancashire.
A community group and an anti-fracking campaigner have lost their legal challenge against the Communities’ Secretary over the way he granted permission for fracking at a site in Lancashire.
Plans to frack for shale gas in Lancashire resulted in individual harm and a “considerable toll” on the local community, even before drilling began, according to a new study.
Lancashire Police has said its operations at Cuadrilla’s fracking site near Blackpool will cost an extra £450,000 a month.
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