Cuadrilla restarts Lancashire fracking

Suez Recycling’s plan to build a plant capable of processing up to 500,000 tonnes of waste a year is set to be signed off by Blackburn with Darwen council this week.

The shale gas exploration company has remobilised a range of equipment at its flagship Lancashire fracking site.

Five schemes in the North West have won a share of the Government’s £1m Coastal Revival Fund to help support restorations and safeguarding of heritage assets in the region’s seaside towns.

Fylde Council has put in a funding bid for the restoration of the grade two-listed St Annes pier, as part of the Government’s wider Coastal Revival Fund.

Preston City Council has launched a consultation as it awaits the outcome of a Lottery funding bid to improve facilities at the city’s combined museum, gallery and library, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary.

After securing consent from Government this summer, energy company Cuadrilla will start hydraulic fracturing at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire in the next week.

Cuadrilla has received hydraulic fracturing permission from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy for its second horizontal shale exploration well at Preston New Road, Lancashire.

Cuadrilla has finished drilling the second horizontal shale gas well at its exploration site at Preston New Road, Lancashire.

Energy firm Cuadrilla has been granted a High Court injunction to stop trespassing at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire as it prepares to start the fracking process later this year.