Cuadrilla has halted fracking operations for a fourth time in the last two months as yet another tremor was recorded near the shale gas company’s Preston new Road site in Lancashire, after seeing its first natural gas flows from that site in early November. Cuadrilla’s new natural gas operation has been shuttered four times since October, and this time will see production halt for “at least 18 hours after the event was recorded,” Cuadrilla stated on Friday. Cuadrilla shut down its site three days ago after a 1.5 magnitude tremor in what is considered a “red” event under Britain’s traffic light system that calls for mandatory shutdowns to all fracking operations. Today’s seismic event was a magnitude 0.5 quake, the minimum threshold for requiring a shut down, which is described as the equivalent of “mixed traffic on a busy road” in the University of Liverpool’s “Seismic Context Measurements for […]