Have your say on fracking health impacts
A researcher is asking for help with an investigation into the impacts of fracking on social health and well-being.
Investigative journalist and environmental writer. Specialising in UK onshore oil and gas, fracking and the reaction to it.
A researcher is asking for help with an investigation into the impacts of fracking on social health and well-being.
Opponents of plans for 15 years of oil production near Scunthorpe had tears in their eyes when councillors refused planning permission this afternoon.
In the past few minutes, councillors in Lincolnshire have refused planning permission to Egdon Resources for 15 years of oil production at its Wressle site near Scunthorpe.
Live updates here from the meeting deciding Egdon’s application for 15 years of oil production at Lodge Farm, Broughton and Appleby, near Scunthorpe
The ministerial approval of plans for shale gas exploration in Lancashire is being challenged in the courts on climate change grounds.
The climate change minister, Nick Hurd, said the UK owed it to future generations to find out whether it could produce shale gas.
A decision on plans for a second shale gas exploration site in Nottinghamshire has been delayed again.
Guest post by Kathryn McWhirter Tomorrow (11 January 2017), North Lincolnshire Council is expected to decide on a plans for oil production at Egdon’s site at Wressle, near Scunthorpe. The application includes proposals for the little-discussed process of acidisation.
In this week’s update on protests about fracking and onshore oil and gas in the UK: Complaints about delivery drivers and security guards at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site in Lancashire Five arrests at Brockham in Surrey where trucks delivered to Angus Energy’s site Several hundred people gather […]
The number of onshore oil and gas wells drilled in the UK in 2016 was the lowest for nearly 50 years, according to data from the Oil and Gas Authority.