We’ve recently had a meeting with United Utilities who tell us that their upcoming November works on Preston New Road is “unrelated to fracking” and is to do with cleaning drinking water pipes. There will be vehicles and works occurring…
PRESTON NEW ROAD ACTION GROUP PRESS RELEASE 06th October 2016 Sajid Javid Overturns Lancashire County Council on Fracking Decisions Preston New Road Action Group are devastated to learn that Sajid Javid, the Secretary of State for Local Government and Communities…
A Champion of Localism? Tory MP, Brandon Lewis, made a potentially lethal statement for the Conservatives regarding fracking and localism last week, during a Radio 4 Any Questions show. Listen to it again here, where he champions planning decisions made by local…
Ryedale Decision Day is Friday 20th May. Join us as the Frack Free Lancashire bus visits Yorkshire with love for Ryedale Decision Day! We are joining our Yorkshire beauties to show support because Lancashire loves Yorkshire, doncha know! Here’s the…
The recent and severe Texas floods as reported here and on this news report, have caused fracking fluids and chemicals to leach into public waterways. Photos can be viewed here with a selection below: We were reminded of an untruth that was spoken…
THIS is how much contempt Gideon Osborne and the Tories have for The Desolate North. The picture on the left shows a sales brochure that Osborne gave out to Chinese investors during his visit last year, prostituting Lancashire for a…
This cliché has become so tired and worn. It is regularly trotted out by the likes of DECC and the Environment Agency like they still believe it has a valid meaning: “Fracking is covered by gold-standard, robust regulations.” Cuadrilla, during this week’s…
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…
To mark International Women’s Day 2016, here is a small selection of frack-free Lancashire women: standing together in the face of the dirty fossil fuel industry. And they roar.
In a community speaking session from Preston New Road residents last night, the clear message from local residents was a loud “No” to Cuadrilla and their plans to invade the rural tranquility of the Fylde. With only two irrelevant speakers…
