Conservative Chancellor George Osborne Cuadrilla will be seeking a deferment to the decision on their Fylde fracking applications at tomorrow’s meeting of Lancashire County Council’s (LCC) Development Control Committee. The […]
County Council planning report recommends refusal of fracking applications
Jerusalem builded here: An artist’s impression of a proposed Lancashire fracking site Lancashire County Council’s Development Control Committee will spend Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 January, from 10am at County […]
MPs pressure David Cameron to release uncensored Fracking Report
A total of ten MPs have now called for DEFRA’s censored ‘Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts’ report to be released in full, including four MPs from David Cameron’s own party. Last […]
Friends of the Earth film reveal passionate opposition to Fracking across Lancashire
Take Action Now. Keep Lancashire Frack Free. from Friends of the Earth EWNI on Vimeo. Friends of the Earth has released a video documenting the views of Lancashire people on fracking, […]
County Council sets January dates for decisions on shale gas
Lancashire County Council has scheduled two days in January 2015 for its Development Control Committee to make decisions on planning applications for shale gas development at two sites in the […]
County’s fracking decision deadlines postponed to 31 January
Farmers objecting to Cuadrilla’s fracking applications hold mass tractor rally through Preston in October Lancashire County Council has now agreed with Cuadrilla that decisions on two planning applications for shale […]
Fracking poses risk to public health says County Council assessment
Toxic seepage: Cuadrilla’s original drilling site at Preece Hall Farm (photo taken before site was shut down) Last Thursday Lancashire County Council considered the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) on Lancashire’s […]
County planners postpone decision deadline for fracking applications
A commercially viable shale gas extraction field requires 50+ wells Lancashire County Council has agreed with Cuadrilla to defer the deadline for a decision on planning applications for shale gas […]
Creative anti-fracking campaigners take the protests to the next level
Cuadrilla’s planning applications for shale gas drilling (fracking) test sites at Preston New Road and Roseacre Wood have received over 14,000 objections (the deadline is 5 September). But despite the […]
Over 5,000 objections to Cuadrilla’s fracking site application. Cuadrilla applies for second test site
Roseacre residents express their views on fracking Over 5,000 objections have been lodged with Lancashire County Council against Cuadrilla’s application to drill at a proposed site on agricultural land at […]