Cuadrilla drilling rig at Banks in Lancashire As hundreds of West Sussex residents today blockade roads preventing Cuadrilla trucks from entering their shale gas extraction (‘fracking’) site at Balcombe (see […]
County Council calls for tighter regulation on 'fracking'
Lancashire County Council has welcomed new controls on the extraction of shale gas but called upon the government to introduce industry specific regulation of hydraulic fracturing. In a unanimously approved […]
Anti Fracking campaign to continue
Campaigners against ‘fracking’ have vowed to continue their fight, despite court judgements against some and support for the technology from Tory-led Lancashire County Council. On Tuesday, three people from Liverpool […]
Not in my Frack Yard: Cuadrilla lambasted by protestors
(via SchNews): Executives of Caudrilla Resources, the company engaged in ‘fracking’ in Lancashire to extract resources, a tecnhnology causing plenty of controversy, were left quaking in their boots after angry fracking […]
Quake Up Call for Lancashire
(adapted from report on SchNews) On the same day that an anti-fracking protesters held a ‘frack mob’ outside the Shale Gas Environmental Summit in London organised by the Global Warming […]