Breaking: UKOG withdraws application for Markwells Wood in South Downs
The South Downs National Park Authority has announced that a planning application for oil drilling and production at Markwells Wood in West Sussex has been withdrawn.
Ruth Hayhurst
Investigative journalist and environmental writer. Specialising in UK onshore oil and gas, fracking and the reaction to it.
Protest update: 1-7 May 2017
In this update of protests about fracking and the onshore oil and gas industry: Security guards remove anti-fracking campaigners from business park in Lancashire Ten people join Greenpeace UK protest to block entrance to Preston New Road Two women block the Bolton depot of Cuadrilla’s site contractor, A E […]
May 2017 drilling headlines
DrillOrDrop’s May 2017 digest of news about fracking, shale and onshore oil and gas updated daily. For headlines from previous months, click here
Drilling diary – May 2017
100 events in May 2017 about UK fracking and onshore oil and gas. Including tours of the film The Bentley Effect and the satire Fracked! Plus deadlines, information events and meetings. Please let us know here if you’d like us to add your events or if any details are wrong. This page will be […]
Sussex residents urged to object to UKOG’s oil drilling plans at Broadford Bridge
About 150 people heard calls last night to object to oil drilling, expected in the next few weeks, at a farm near Billingshurst in West Sussex.
What’s happening this week? 1-7 May 2017
In this week’s listing: the latest government data on public attitudes to fracking, plus meetings, information events, presentations, petitions, deadlines and performances. Please let us know (click here) if any of these details are incorrect or if other events should be included.
Oil company accuses Sussex drilling opponents of “scaremongering” – “nonsense” says “shocked” campaign group
The oil company behind plans to drill in West Sussex in the next few weeks has written to local people accusing its opponents of “unsettling levels of scaremongering” and “extraordinary levels of misinformation”. UK Oil and Gas (UKOG) has said it expects to drill an exploratory oil well […]
Picture post: Cyclists complete two-day “tour de frack” between shale sites
A group of cyclists completed a 120-mile ride this afternoon between sites in Lancashire and Yorkshire where fracking is due to take place.
Australian anti-drilling activists bring their film and methods to the UK
Campaigners who fought off unconventional gas in Australia are sharing their successful methods with communities in the UK in May and June.
INEOS gives notice of application for Derbyshire shale gas well
INEOS confirmed today it would submit a planning application in early May for a vertical shale gas well on the edge of the village of Marsh Lane in north Derbyshire.
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