Fracking splits in Reform
The controversial issue of fracking in Lancashire has divided Reform politicians in the county from their national leadership.
Breaking: Cuadrilla’s Lancashire fracking site gets more time
The UK’s most controversial shale gas site has won a two-year reprieve before it must be returned to farmland.
Cuadrilla’s fracking site should be abandoned – campaigners
Anti-fracking groups in Lancashire are calling on the government and regulators to order the permanent plugging and abandonment of wells at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site.
“Caravan of love” fracking trial dropped “in public interest”
The trial of 12 anti-fracking campaigners who parked a caravan in front of Cuadrilla’s shale gas site has been abandoned.
Cuadrilla and campaigners reflect on a year at Preston New Road
A year ago today, Cuadrilla began work at its Preston New Road site near Blackpool in Lancashire, the first site in the UK to host and frack horizontal shale gas wells.
Green Party offers “full support” to veteran anti-fracking campaigner arrested at Cuadrilla’s shale gas site
Tina Rothery, a long-standing opponent of fracking, has been arrested outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site at Preston New Road near Blackpool.
Greens pledge to replace fracking with renewables
As expected, the Green Party has promised to replace fracking, coal-fired power stations and nuclear with renewables.
Judge grants injunction for Cuadrilla’s fracking site – but rejects protest area proposal
A High Court judge has granted an injunction outlawing public access to Cuadrilla’s shale gas site at Preston New Road, near Blackpool. But his honour Philip Raynor QC refused the company’s application to exclude from the injunction a protest area on land about 175m from the site entrance.
Cuadrilla asks court to outlaw access at Lancashire fracking site
The shale gas company, Cuadrilla, is going to court on Monday to try to renew an injunction at its Preston New Road fracking site at Little Plumpton, near Blackpool.
December 2016 drilling headlines
DrillorDrop’s digest of December’s news about fracking, shale, onshore oil and gas developments and campaigns in the UK and around the world.
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