United Kingdom: Aerial footage: Fracking test drilling begins in Balcombe

Telegraph: Cuadrilla's oil drilling project has been subject to days of delays because of high-profile protests designed to halt delivery of trucks and equipment to the plant. Today a Cuadrilla spokesman said: "We started test drilling at 11.15am, and we will do a 3,000ft vertical well. We will be there for two to three months." Campaigners fear the project at Lower Stumble, near Balcombe, West Sussex, could lead Cuadrilla to go on to conduct hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The controversial method of......

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