Investigative journalist and environmental writer. Specialising in UK onshore oil and gas, fracking and the reaction to it.
Plans by UK Oil & Gas to explore for oil at Arreton on the Isle of Wight should be refused because they may be a hazard to road users, highway officials have recommended.
A bid to allow gas fields in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire to operate until 2035 is now likely to be approved after a government ruling.
Union Jack Oil plc is to pay £500,000 to become the largest single investor in the Wressle oil field in North Lincolnshire.
A legal challenge against the oil and gas industry regulator will be heard at the High Court next month (July 2020).
UK Oil & Gas said today it would reperforate the Portland section of its first well at the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey.
Bob Seely, the Conservative MP for Isle of Wight, has told campaigners he is against proposals to drill for oil at Arreton.
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Reports from the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey this morning say protesters breached security and got into the compound at dawn, preventing the start of work.
More than a third of damage reports following the UK’s strongest fracking-induced earthquake in Lancashire last year were from one town, according to data released this week.
More than 100 campaign groups have urged the UK and Scottish governments not to bail out part of the Ineos group because of losses during the coronavirus outbreak.
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