Investigative journalist and environmental writer. Specialising in UK onshore oil and gas, fracking and the reaction to it.
In this week’s listings Challenge to INEOS injunction at the High Court in London; No Fracking Day in North East Derbyshire; West Sussex County Council meeting on extension to planning permission at Broadford Bridge; Surrey County Council meeting on retrospective permission at Brockham; Webinar on Physicians for Social […]
In this week’s update on protests about fracking and the onshore oil and gas industry: “Rig surfer” protest in West Sussex; Anti-fracking campaigners gather outside Third Energy’s Kirby Misperton site; Women’s protest at Cuadrilla’s shale gas site; This post will be updated throughout the week. Please let us know about […]
Students looking for a career in the onshore oil and gas industry were expected to enrol in a new national college this month.
A photojournalist who reports on anti-fracking protests had his conviction for obstructing the highway overturned on appeal today.
Councillors voted unanimously last night (6 September 2017) to take action to protect trees on the route to be used by lorries delivering to an oil exploration site near Leith Hill in Surrey.
The drilling rig held up in a protest in West Sussex this morning has arrived, as expected, at Angus Energy’s Lidsey oil site near Bognor Regis.
A campaigner opposed to onshore oil and gas exploration climbed onto a drilling rig at a service station in West Sussex early this morning.
The anti-fracking campaigner, Joe Corre, is to go to court next week to oppose an injunction brought by INEOS Upstream against shale gas protesters.
Opponents of Third Energy’s operation to frack a well at Kirby Misperton will be allowed to slow down lorries delivering to the site just twice a day, the police officer in charge of the operation has said.
Proposals by Angus Energy to protect the environment at its Brockham oil site in Surrey are inadequate, vague and subjective and raise doubts about the company’s competence, according to a local community group.
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