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Cuadrilla Resources is an oil and gas exploration and production company founded in 2007. It is headquartered in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, and has operations in the United Kingdom. The company intend to develop shale gas in the UK by using hydraulic fracturing. Its chairman is Roy Franklin, OBE, Deputy chair of the Board of Statoil ASA and the chief executive is Francis Egan. Cuadrilla caused two earthquakes in April 2011 when they fracked the Preese Hall site on the Fylde in Lancashire. Their attempts to frack at Balcombe in 2013 were met with strong resistance, which forced the company to back down. Efforts to pursue fracking on the Fylde have continued and have also been met by fierce local opposition. After their application to prospect for shale gas at the Preston New Road site was initially turned down by Lancashire County Council, Cuadrilla appealed and in October 2016, Communities Secretary Sajid Javid overturned the local decision, thus giving the company approval to frack. Construction of the site began in January 2017 and has been met by daily roadside resistance by the community and a series of direct actions which have blockaded the site. In July, grassroots direct action collective Reclaim the Power took daily action to blockade the site, during a month of Rolling Resistance.