Drilling rig owned by UK fracking firm Cuadrilla 'seriously vandalised'

Derbyshire police say rig was damaged at storage yard in move seemingly intended to slow embryonic shale industry A drilling rig owned by one of the UK’s most prominent fracking firms has been seriously vandalised, in a move seemingly intended to slow down the country’s embryonic shale industry. Derbyshire police said that between 18 and 24 May, a person illegally entered a facility near Chesterfield run by PR Marriott, Britain’s largest onshore deep drilling company, which sto