UK shale gas driller Cuadrilla Resources is ramping up its activity by appointing engineering firm Arup to run its Environmental Impact Assessments. Cuadrilla is one of two currently exploring in the UK (their drilling rig, pictured) and this marks a surge in development for the firm’s hopes in the UK as yesterday British Gas owner […]

Communities across the US are due to hold rallies next week to “shine light” on problems related to fracking. The event ‘Freedom from Toxic Fracking Waste: National Rally Day’ is expected to raise awareness of serious risks to public health and safety and links to earthquakes, spills, leaks and contamination. Fracking involves a process of […]

Protestors chained themselves to a site in Chesterfield in the early hours of the morning in protest against the controversial hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ process used to extract shale gas. Twenty members of the group Frack Off targeted a site owned by PR Marriott, a contractor for shale gas firm Cuadrilla Resources which is drilling […]

Green groups have reacted with dismay to news today that the UK is likely to go ahead with shale gas extraction. A report given to DECC today recommends several measures to mitigate the risks of seismic tremors from hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’, but some are warning the implications of allowing the process to go ahead […]

The controversial shale gas industry has effectively been given the green light by the UK Government, despite warnings from an independent report which found that fracking, the process of extracting shale gas, was responsible for earthquakes in Blackpool last year. The government-backed panel is recommending a series of new, precautionary measures to the shale gas […]

A gas firm drilling in the North West of England says it could be sitting on double the amount of shale gas it had originally expected. IGas Energy believes it could find nearly ten trillion cubic feet of shale gas at its Ince Marshes site in Cheshire. IGas first stumbled upon the shale gas section in January […]

Shale gas “fracking” could create 50,000 jobs and possibly reduce gas prices in the UK, the former CEO of BP has claimed in a newspaper interview. Lord Browne, now a director of shale gas company Cuadrilla Resources, said Lancashire could potentially become the centre for shale gas in Europe. Fracking involves a process of extracting […]

Environmental activists from Bristol broke into Cuadrilla Resources’ shale gas drilling site in Blackpool last week and attached themselves to equipment. It is the second time in a month the firm’s activity in the area has been targeted, with protesters storming another site in Blackpool at the beginning of November. A spokesperson said: “We have […]

A subsidiary of water and waste-focused Pennon Group has bought Lancashire waste logistics firm JWS Churngold. Viridor Waste Management bought the firm, which transports waste from the Lancashire and Blackpool local authorities, for £14.25m.

Protestors stormed the site of Cuadrilla’s shale gas drilling site in Blackpool and attached themselves to the machinery in the early hours of the morning yesterday. The incident pulls Cuadrilla into the media focus once again, after tremors in the surrounding area earlier this year sparked unease over the environmental effects of the hydraulic fracturing […]