Ease fracking laws or we’ll pull out, warns Cuadrilla, Francis Egan, the chief executive of Cuadrilla, wants fracking companies to have automatic access rights by Ben Webster and Tim Webb, May 31 2014, The times
The energy company leading efforts to exploit Britain’s shale gas reserves has threatened to pull out unless the law is changed to allow it to drill under people’s homes without their permission.
Francis Egan, chief executive of Cuadrilla, which this week applied to drill four exploratory wells in Lancashire, said that the fracking industry would be unable to proceed if it had to negotiate access with owners of every piece of land under which it wanted to extract fossil fuels. [Emphasis added]