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On November 2, the UK government imposed an indefinite suspension on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations due to fears about earth tremor risk. The government announced the suspension after a report by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) said it was impossible to predict the probability or size of tremors caused by shale gas extraction....
The UK government has imposed an indefinite suspension on fracking operations due to fears about earthquakes. The government announced the suspension on November 2 after a report by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) said it was impossible to predict the probability or size of tremors caused by shale gas extraction....
Cuadrilla Resources has halted operations at its Preston New Road fracking site in Lancashire after a series of seismic events. The shutdown comes less than a week after Cuadrilla started fracking its second well on the site after abandoning the first well following multiple shutdowns due to tremors....
Shale gas developer Cuadrilla has been given the green light by the UK government to start hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations at the Preston New Road site in Lancashire. This is the first time the energy ministry has issued a fracking permit since the new shale gas regulatory regime was introduced....
On April 3, Cuadrilla Resources said it had completed drilling the UK’s first horizontal well into a shale gas formation at a site in Lancashire, as a prelude to starting hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations from the site this summer. The company said it has discovered a "very sizeable quantity" of natural gas at the Preston New Road site....
The UK government does not expect a fracking boom on the scale originally predicted, according to confidential Cabinet Office projections seen by Unearthed, the Greenpeace UK website. The government’s unreleased Implementation Unit Report on Shale Gas foresees only 155 wells drilled by 2025, against projections of thousands of wells from the shale gas industry as recently as 2012....
The environmental charity Friends of the Earth (FOE) has been ordered not to repeat misleading claims it made in an anti-fracking leaflet, the UK Advertising Standards Authority watchdog announced on January 4. The leaflet claimed fracking chemicals could pollute drinking water and cause cancer and implied the process increases rates of asthma....
UK Communities Secretary Sajid Javid announced on October 6 that he had overturned Lancashire county council’s rejection of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) at the Little Plumpton shale gas site at Preston New Road following an appeal by site operator Cuadrilla Resources. The council cited visual impact and noise when it turned down the company’s two planning applications to frack on the Fylde peninsula last year....
The UK Government has said it will intervene in the confrontation over proposals for two fracking projects in Lancashire. On November 26, Lancashire County Council was informed by the Department for Communities and Local Government that Secretary of State Greg Clark will use the "recovery" process that gives him the power to make the final decision on a planning application following an appeal....
The Oil & Gas Authority, part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, confirmed on August 18 that 27 licences from the 14th Onshore Oil and Gas Licensing Round had been formally offered to companies, giving the green light to large-scale shale oil and gas development in the UK....
