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Cuadrilla fracked seven times before record-breaking tremor – official logs

By Ruth Hayhurst on September 12, 2019 • ( 11 Comments )

Cuadrilla fracked just seven times at its Preston New Road site near Blackpool last month before inducing a record-breaking earth tremor.

Confidential records reveal limitations of Cuadrilla’s Lancashire fracking operation

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 1, 2019 • ( 105 Comments )

Two-thirds of the UK’s first horizontal shale gas well was not fracked during a nine-week operation last autumn, according to reports that the company, Cuadrilla, tried to keep secret.