Plugging order issued to Cuadrilla and means the wells must be filled in by the end of 2024
The company behind the controversial Preston New Road fracking site in Fylde has been told that it must plug its two wells there by the end of next year.The North Sea Transition Authority has issued the order to energy firm Cuadrilla, more than a year after it suspended a previous instruction to abandon the location, in the wake of uncertainty over energy supplies following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The company had carried out drilling operations at Preese Hall in Fylde, which were linked to two minor tremors near Blackpool back in 2011. Responding to the abandonment notice handed to the firm this week, she told the Local Democracy Reporting Service : “Finally, the fantasy and tragedy of the pursuit of fracking in Lancashire is in its last stages.
A spokesperson for NSTA said that it had issued “a Plug and Abandonment notice on the two Preston New Road wells operated by Cuadrilla” on 9th August.Read moreUnder the original planning approval, Cuadrilla was required to complete decommissioning and restoration activity within a period of 75 months of the start of its test drilling operations.
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