Cuadrilla has set up a dedicated viewing area near its Preston New Road shale gas exploration site, in order to allow interested members of the public to observe the site from a safe location as work progresses. It is intended that the area will be open during daylight hours from approximately 0900 to 1700 each …
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Cuadrilla welcomes the High Court verdict handed down by The Hon. Mr Justice Dove on 12th April which dismisses the two claims made against the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Sajid Javid’s, decision to grant planning consent for its shale gas exploration site at Preston New Road, Lancashire. Francis Egan, CEO of …
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Cuadrilla is pleased to announce the start of initial surface construction works on its shale gas exploration site at Preston New Road, near Little Plumpton. Planning consent was granted in October 2016 and Lancashire County Council recently discharged the planning conditions and approved Cuadrilla’s associated management plans for the works. The surface site, which is …
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Following an intensive 14 month investigation by the Advertising Standards Authority, the charity Friends of the Earth (FoE) has agreed with the regulator that it made a series of false claims about fracking in a fundraising leaflet sent to thousands of homes in the UK entitled ‘Pat Saved Her Home From Fracking. You Can Save …
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Cuadrilla welcomes the decision by Secretary of State for Department for Communities and Local Government Sajid Javid to grant planning consent for its applications to drill, hydraulically fracture and test the flow of gas from up to four exploration wells at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire. Regarding a similar application for a proposed …
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As part of its environmental monitoring commitments and in compliance with new legislation Cuadrilla can confirm it has notified Lancashire County Council of its intent to drill four boreholes for the purposes of groundwater monitoring at its proposed exploration site at Preston New Road. Cuadrilla will also be submitting a similar notification for four shallow …
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Cuadrilla is very pleased to announce it has been offered a further 16 exploration licences, as part of the second release of the UK Government’s 14th Round. These onshore oil and gas exploration licences, stretch across the Cleveland Basin in East Yorkshire and Gainsborough Trough in South Yorkshire. The licences are in addition to two …
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Commenting on the decision of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to determine Cuadrilla’s Appeals for the proposed exploratory shale gas sites and monitoring arrays at Preston New Road and Roseacre Wood, Lancashire a Cuadrilla spokesperson said: “We note the decision of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to …
Cuadrilla warmly welcomes the Chancellor’s announcement in today’s Autumn Statement that 10% of tax revenues from shale gas developments, up to a maximum of £10m per site, will be put into a Shale Wealth Fund which could deliver up to £1 billion of investment in local communities hosting shale gas developments over the next 25 …
The Becconsall shale gas exploration site is located near Banks in Lancashire and an exploratory well was successfully drilled by Cuadrilla in 2011 with rock samples recovered and other geological measurements recorded. No fracking took place at the site. Cuadrilla sought and was granted planning permission by Lancashire County Council on 1 May 2015 to: …
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