1.5ML earthquake felt in Blackpool
People living in Blackpool and nearby villages reported an earthquake at 7.36pm on Friday.
Investigative journalist and environmental writer. Specialising in UK onshore oil and gas, fracking and the reaction to it.
People living in Blackpool and nearby villages reported an earthquake at 7.36pm on Friday.
Keep up to date with February 2023’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas.
The industry regulator has given UK Oil & Gas plc more time to drill a gas well near the village of Dunsfold in Surrey, the company has announced.
DrillOrDrop’s diary of events in spring 2023 involving the UK onshore oil and gas industry and campaigns about it.
The UK needs to kick its dependence on fossil fuels by dropping plans for new oil and gas licences and the new coal mine in Cumbria, Friends of the Earth said this morning.
The UK’s biggest energy supplier, Centrica, has announced plans to turn the site of a former gas-fired power station in North Yorkshire into a battery storage plant.
Angus Energy has said the drilling of a sidetrack at its Saltfleetby gas site has been extended by about 14 days.
Routine flaring on oil and gas fields should be banned by 2025, a review of the government’s net zero strategy has concluded.
The Court of Appeal has rejected a legal challenge to UK government investment of $1.15bn in a liquified natural gas project in Mozambique.
A cross-party committee of MPs has called for flaring on UK oil and gas fields to be banned in the next two years.