Today some members of the Preston New Road Action Group, the residents living within a few hundred metres of the frack site, met with the government appointed Shale Gas Commissioner Natascha Engel. It was clearly understood (and admitted) that she is not…

Preston New Road Action Group in Lancashire have expressed deep concerns that the first hydraulic fracturing in the UK since 2011, has now taken place at Cuadrilla’s site in Little Plumpton, only 300 metres away from residential properties. The previous frack…

This is an open letter that a local Fylde resident has sent to the Right Honorable Claire Perry M.P., Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Download the Open Letter

Preston New Road Action Group would like to say thank you to everyone who has donated money to us and Frack Free Lancashire over the last eighteen months. These donations have enabled us to progress our Legal Challenge to Judicial…

The Judgement from our appeal held last August has been handed down and sadly the appeal has not gone in our favour. The judges appear to have agreed with the conclusions from our Judicial Review on all 4 of the…

Cuadrilla have applied to Lancashire County Council to allow up to nine convoys of HGVs to deliver to their site at Preston New Road over night. This is a variation to Planning Condition 19 which states that these vehicles should only…

  We are delighted that the court has agreed that there is validity in our arguments and they have therefore upheld a right of appeal against the decision to allow fracking at the Preston New Road site. We have put forward credible…

We’re still fighting fracking! We’re not just fighting for Preston New Road, but any site that is at risk. If Lancashire County Council’s decision is overturned, this will open the door to the UK being bombarded with applications to frack the very…