Villagers visit fracking site that is now producing clean energy
Campaigners have visited a fracking site in North Yorkshire which is now piloting renewable energy.
Investigative journalist and environmental writer. Specialising in UK onshore oil and gas, fracking and the reaction to it.
Campaigners have visited a fracking site in North Yorkshire which is now piloting renewable energy.
A landmark legal judgement on the climate impact of onshore oil has forced the UK’s first ever formal assessment of carbon emissions from burning hydrocarbons.
More than 150 small earthquakes in Surrey in 2018 and 2019 might have been triggered by oil operations, according to a new study, published today.
Lancashire County Council is expected to announce by the end of January what action it will take on Cuadrilla’s fracking site which is now in breach of planning permission.
The campaigner behind last year’s Supreme Court judgement on climate emissions has called for strict new rules that would prevent most future oil and gas extraction.
DrillOrDrop’s diary of events in 2025 involving the UK onshore oil and gas industry and campaigns about it.
Keep up to date with 2025’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas. We’re also posting updates on the decommissioning work at Cuadrilla’s shale gas wells at Preston New Road, near Blackpool.
Star Energy announced this morning it had acquired a further 20% of the geothermal company, A14 Energy Limited.
October 2024 saw the lowest daily production rate for UK onshore oil since the oil leak at Wytch Farm 18 months earlier.
All the new onshore oil and gas wells in the UK in 2024 were drilled on a single small island in Poole Harbour, according to official data analysed by DrillOrDrop.