Environmentalists in the United Kingdom are pushing for a total ban on fracking operations alarmed by a succession of earthquakes in Lancashire county in northwest England where the now-suspended Preston New Road shale gas extraction site is located, a spokesperson for Frack Free Lancashire (FFL), Miranda Cox, told Sputnik on Tuesday

The leadership of the UK Labour Party wrote a letter to UK Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom calling on the government to ban controversial fracking operations that recently triggered the biggest tremor ever recorded in the country

The Cuadrilla energy company has suspended its controversial fracking operations at Preston New Road near the town of Blackpool on the United Kingdom's Lancashire coast after its activities triggered a quake, the biggest ever recorded at the company's sites, a company spokesperson said

UK oil and gas exploration company Cuadrilla announced on Thursday that it would resume the controversial fracking for shale gas near the town of Blackpool on the Lancashire coast, North West England, in the third quarter of 2019

UK-based Cuadrilla company, engaged in exploring and developing shale gas in the country, said on Tuesday that it had suspended fracking works at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire for 18 hours after registering a 1.5-magnitude seismic activity in the area.

UK-based IGas Energy company said on Tuesday that it has started drilling a shale gas well in the northern England, following Cuadrilla company's footsteps to resume fracking in the United Kingdom despite public concerns.

A health professional working on the stroke unit at the Blackpool Victoria Hospital in the northwestern UK county of Lancashire has been arrested on suspicion of mistreating and poisoning patients, Lancashire police said in a statement on Monday.

UK-based Cuadrilla company, engaged in exploring and developing shale gas in the country, said on Monday that it had suspended fracking works at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire for 18 hours after registering a 1.1-magnitude seismic activity in the area.

UK-based Cuadrilla, engaged in exploring and developing shale gas in the country, said on Friday it had suspended fracking works at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire for 18 hours after detecting 0.76-magnitude seismic activity in the area.