Since last week, nearly 17,000 of us have come together to throw a major spanner in the works of those who want to see Britain fracked. Together, thousands of us living in areas earmarked for potential shale gas extraction have launched a serious legal challenge against underhouse fracking. Now meet a few of the people who have joined the Not For Shale legal block.
Posted by LiamBB — 4 September 2013 at 8:57am
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Arriving to work this morning, staff at Lancashire County Council will find a fracking rig drilling outside County Hall in Preston. It's a fake fracking outfit - the same Frack & Go that struck in George Osborne's constituency ealier this year - but it gives a small taste of what being next door to a drilling operation is like.
It's particularly timely as the council planning committee will be deciding soon on a new application from Cuadrilla, the same company that has attracted huge protests in Sussex.
Greenpeace campaigners are “fracking” the Lancashire County Council (LCC) chambers in Preston.
Around 10 campaigners dressed as workers from fracking company “Frack & Go”
have erected a large fracking rig and surrounded it with an 8 foot high
fence just outside the chambers’ main entrance. A soundtrack of drills,
trucks and industrial plant is playing at volume as councillors enter
the building.
Frack&Go is the same drilling company that took over the Chancellor’s village green in Tatton earlier this year. (1)
Cuadrilla has withdrawn its application to extend the time in
which it can drill for oil in Balcombe. It has instead decided to “reassess our
programme and, in turn, the terms of our current planning application.”
Commenting on the news, Greenpeace energy campaigner Leila Deen
said:
Are you in the market for a nice two bedroom house in the North West? In a previously quiet residential area, close to minor earth tremors, with the potential for high volume traffic and drilling right under your property? Then you’ve come to the right place!
Posted by jamie — 14 August 2013 at 11:17am
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Yesterday, we asked fracking company Cuadrilla - currently being surrounded by protesters in the Sussex village of Balcombe - for an open, transparent debate on Twitter about, well, fracking. Sadly, we were rebuffed.
