An anti-fracking campaigner has lost a last-ditch legal effort to stop the first fracking in the UK in seven years. Lancashire resident Robert Dennett had won a temporary injunction last week to stop shale natural gas company Cuadrilla from fracking in a well near Blackpool in northwest England.
Cuadrilla wants to restart fracking in Lancashire. We won’t stop until this cynical attempt to save a dying industry is halted, says Frack Free Lancashire member Barbara Richardson
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image captionFracking has been suspended since it caused an earthquake in Lancashire last year
The UK s only fracking firm Cuadrilla has relinquished its permission to test drill in Lancashire.
The Environment Agency has accepted the company s partial surrender of the permit for the site on Preston New Road, Little Plumpton.
Anti-fracking campaigners said the decision showed fracking was finished in the county.
Cuadrilla, which received the government go-ahead for fracking in 2016, has been contacted for a comment.
Last year the government suspended all fracking amid renewed concerns about earthquakes in Lancashire.
The Environment Agency notice said the company had given up consent to inject hydraulic fracturing fluid, incinerate gases and manage drilling waste.