Drilling fluids bounce off a shale shaker
Tremors run through UK fracking industry
Cuadrilla’s UK fracking resumption has been a stop-start affair
The UK government's refusal to relax regulations on earth tremors suggests that these will continue to slow progress in the hydraulic fracturing of a British shale gas well, leaving the nascent industry's future again in the balance. Last week, a freedom of information request by Greenpeace's Unearthed publication revealed that Energy minister Claire Perry had written to the fracking firm Cuadrilla Resources after it publicly criticised the government's policy on tremors. Perry stated the current system was "fit for purpose" and the government had "no intention of altering it". Cuadrilla Resources started fracking one of two wells at its Preston New Road site in October, to assess the are
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