Lancashire Evening Post: Fracking plans ‘have not stalled'
he BBC’s Inside Out North West Programme, which aired last night, said Cuadrilla Resources withdrew applications for radioactive waste permits that would allow the controversial shale gas drilling process – known as fracking – to go ahead.
The programme claimed Cuadrilla told the BBC, following recent changes in the Environment Agency’s guidance on permits and an ongoing review of its exploration programme, it had decided to ‘withdraw the previous permit applications for our sites in Lancashire’.
But Cuadrilla said it was in the process of preparing new permits.