Cuadrilla starts work on Lancashire fracking site

Energy firm says it is building access road at site in Fylde after receiving government green light last yearEnergy company Cuadrilla has started work on a controversial shale gas site in Lancashire that will later this year become the first well to be fracked in the UK since 2011.The site at Preston New Road in the Fylde is one of two that Lancashire county council rejected but whose decision was overturned last year by the communities secretary, Sajid Javid.Continue reading...