[citation needed] Other sites: A proposed test well, half a mile from Balcombe in West Sussex, scheduled for summer 2013, was the scene of protests.
[29] Caudrilla had explained that the drilling would last no more than four months and would not involve fracking, however they were to use acid washing to open natural fractures.
[31] Cuadrilla suspended its drilling plans in August 2013 after consulting with the Sussex police, citing "threats of direct action against the exploration site".
[32] Other sites: In 2012, Cuadrilla was awarded the Pionki hydrocarbon exploration licence in Poland, which covered an area of over 820 square-kilometres in the greater Lublin Trough/Radom-Krasnik High.
In Tompa 38,796 acres composed of recomplete Miocene were described to contain multi TCF Basin Centred TGS.
[43] Cuadrilla has also funded, in conjunction with Centrica the North West Energy Task Force[44] which on 8 January 2015 organised an Open Letter to Lancashire County Council in support of fracking.
This letter was signed by Jane Watson,[45] sister of Robert Altham, the judge who sentenced three anti-fracking protesters to prison in September 2018.
[46] Cuadrilla gave evidence to the British parliament in Westminster in 2011, based on an analysis by Pöyry consultancy, that using the shale gas reserves in Lancashire could lower British natural gas prices by as much as four per cent, and indirectly lower electricity prices.