Little Plumpton, Blackpool, UK. 25/07/2018. Women in white protest at Cuadrilla Fracking Site after the announcement that experimental fracking is to go ahead in September. The process which uses huge amount of water is scheduled to commence when the local reservoir is full to capacity. Extensive pipe works to supply the site have been completed. Credit: MediaWorldImages/AlamyLiveNews
The first large-scale fracking in Britain has moved a step closer after an energy firm said it had completed drilling the UK’s first horizontal well at a site in Lancashire. Cuadrilla said the development was a “major milestone” towards the first shale gas exploration in the UK since 2011, when work was halted after it triggered a minor earthquake. The company said it hoped to begin fracking at its site on Preston New Road, near Blackpool, in the summer, pending government approval. Cuadrilla has reported signs of a “sizeable quantity of shale gas” on the site and said its tests suggested each well could extract enough gas to power 5,000 homes for 30 years. The drilling announcement was met with scorn from environmentalists and protesters,
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