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United Kingdom: Aerial footage: Fracking test drilling begins in Balcombe
2013-08-02 14:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Cuadrilla's oil drilling project has been subject to days of delays because of high-profile protests designed to halt delivery of trucks and equipment to the plant. Today a Cuadrilla spokesman said: "We started test drilling at 11.15am, and we will do a 3,000ft vertical well. We will be there for two to three months." Campaigners fear the project at Lower Stumble, near Balcombe, West Sussex, could lead Cuadrilla to go on to conduct hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The controversial method of...
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Balcombe oil drilling begins after anti-fracking protests cause delay
2013-08-02 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Drilling for oil close to the West Sussex village of Balcombe has begun following a week of blockades and protests by anti-fracking activists who fear that the possible use of the extraction method could lead to the pollution of water courses. Cuadrilla, the oil and gas exploration company headed by the former BP boss Lord Browne, said work started at around 11.30am on Friday and drills would penetrate more than 900 metres (3,000ft) into the Sussex shale to test for the availability of oil reserves....
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Fracking firm begins tests at Balcombe oil site as protests enter ninth day
2013-08-02 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The energy firm Cuadrilla has started testing equipment ahead of exploratory oil drilling in West Sussex as anti-fracking protests at the site entered a ninth day. The project has been subject to days of delays because of protests led by Frack Off campaigners designed to halt delivery of equipment to the site. On Friday a Cuadrilla spokesman said: "Testing of equipment started last night but we haven't started drilling yet." Drilling could start later on Friday. Campaigners fear the project at...
United Kingdom: Frack Off protesters bring a little fire engine trouble to Balcombe oil site
2013-08-01 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Protests at a planned drilling site of a fracking company took an innovative turn on Thursday after activists stopped work by parking an antique fire engine outside the gates of the facility and locked themselves to the vehicle. The campaign group Frack Off said the fire engine, bought by some of the protesters involved, arrived at the site near Balcombe, West Sussex where the energy company Cuadrilla plans to drill wells in the hope of releasing oil from the rocks at about 7am. Two protesters...
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Fracking protest: who's who in the battle of Balcombe?
2013-07-30 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The battle of Balcombe as it was instantly and inevitably dubbed has pitched police trying to ensure energy company Cuadrilla can drill an exploratory well outside a pretty, prosperous and hitherto sleepy West Sussex village against a coalition of protesters who fear the operation will lead to full-scale oil or gas production through the controversial process of fracking. The opposition alliance are a disparate bunch: Local residents According to a survey by Balcombe parish council last year,...
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