‘We will oppose this’: Truss fracking plans met with anger and dismay in Lancashire

Preston New Road activists promise to regroup to fight Cuadrilla until fracking in UK is banned for good

Chris Holliday, 60, recalls the exact moment a 2.9-magnitude earth tremor brought a halt to fracking in the UK. It was 8.30am on August bank holiday Monday in 2019 and Holliday, a retired IT consultant, was with his wife, Susan, in their neat kitchen when all of a sudden the cups and saucers began to shake.

The crockery and glasses were rattling. The windows were rattling," he said on Thursday.