Northern anti-fracking campaigns step up plans for meetings and “targeted resistance”
Opponents of fracking are intensifying their campaign against the shale gas industry across northern England.
Ruth Hayhurst
Investigative journalist and environmental writer. Specialising in UK onshore oil and gas, fracking and the reaction to it.
Reaction to Rotherham council’s unanimous opposition to INEOS Harthill shale gas plan
Residents and environmental groups celebrated this afternoon as councillors in Rotherham voted unanimously to opposed INEOS’s shale gas exploration plans at Harthill.
Reaction to refusal of IGas planning application for testing at Ellesmere Port
Opponents of plans by IGas to test a gas well in Ellesmere Port stood to applaud Cheshire councillors this evening when they voted to reject the company’s planning application on climate change grounds.
Live updates: Cheshire councillors vote against IGas plans for gas testing at Ellesmere Port
Live updates on the meeting of Cheshire West and Chester Council discussing IGas’s planning application to test the flow of a gas well at Portside North, at Ellesmere Port. Council officers have recommended the application for approval. The meeting is expecting to hear from supporters and opponents of […]
Live updates: Rotherham councillors unanimously oppose INEOS shale gas plans for Harthill
Live updates from Rotherham Borough Council’s planning board meeting to discuss INEOS plans for a shale gas exploration well at Harthill.
John Dewar resigns as director of fracking firm Third Energy
One of the key figures in the company expected to frack the UK’s first gas well for nearly seven years has resigned as a director.
Three generations of family found guilty over Lancs anti-fracking protest
Three generations of the same family have been found guilty of obstructing the highway outside Cuadrilla’s fracking site in Lancashire.
Lancs councillors unanimously oppose Cuadrilla’s new traffic plans for Roseacre Wood fracking site
Lancashire councillors voted unanimously this morning against a revised traffic management scheme for Cuadrilla’s proposed fracking site at Roseacre Wood near Blackpool.
Competency and financial viability – key criteria for awarding fracking licences, says Minister
Fracking Week in Parliament Companies that apply for oil and gas exploration licences are judged mainly on their ability and their finances, a government minister has confirmed.
Newspaper article prompts Third Energy to confirm no test fracks at N Yorks site
A newspaper article in North Yorkshire led to speculation during the weekend that gas company, Third Energy, had already carried out test fracks at its Kirby Misperton well site.
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