OLICE have arrested three men on suspicion of criminal damage at the Kirby Misperton fracking site. Officers attended after receiving a report of a group of people in dark camouflage clothing running through fields near Kirby Misperton at about 10pm on Sunday night.
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Yukon fracking operation shut down due to earthquakes
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has shut down some fracking operations in Yukon after a series of earthquakes rocked the area this week.
This is what it’s actually like to be on a fracking site
Critics say it causes pollution, floods and landslides. But while there is a storm of protests outside fracking sites, what exactly goes on inside?
Introductory meeting for company with exploratory fracking licences for York and North Yorkshire
A campaign group set up to fight fracking last night said it believes the meeting between North Yorkshire County Council and INEOS should have …
LETTERS: Police costs will have to be borne by taxpayers
£100,000 was spent in September by North Yorkshire Police on their presence at the fracking site at Kirby Misperton, yet we have seen that many of the protesters are local pensioners and farmers.
Eagle Energy Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2017 Results and Board of Directors Changes
Wayne Wisniewski, Eagle’s President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, “At our annual general meeting in June, we laid out two priorities for the remainder of 2017. The first was to drill and test our first North Texas horizontal well in 2017. Although scheduling fracking operations for a single well has been difficult, we are excited to be in the middle of fracking our North Texas well this week and expect to test the well by the end of the year.
Fracking firm to give first households £2,000 payouts
A group of residents in Lancashire will soon receive £2,070 each for living near a fracking site, in the first payments made direct to British householders by a shale gas company.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/06/fracking-payouts-shale-gas-cuadrilla-lancashire
Preston New Road fracking site neighbours are given £2000 payouts
The first compensation payments for living near a fracking site are to be paid this month, with households receiving up to £2,070. Cuadrilla, which is drilling shale gas wells near Blackpool, announced that it would be distributing £100,000 to residents living within 1.5km of the site at Preston New Road.
Fracking protestor fined at court
THE woman who single-handedly stopped traffic for five hours by climbing onto a lorry outside the fracking site near Kirby Misperton on September 28 faces a £315 court bill.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15637407.Fracking_protestor_fined_at_court/
Ohio Court Overturns Law Preventing Cities From Voting on Anti-Fracking Measures
In a slight break with previous state policies that have encouraged fracking activity and new pipelines, the Ohio Supreme Court recently struck down a controversial provision restricting citizen efforts to vote locally on these and other issues through the ballot initiative process.