Investigative journalist and environmental writer. Specialising in UK onshore oil and gas, fracking and the reaction to it.
Lancashire Responds event today following the decision by the Communities Secretary Sajid Javid to approve fracking at Preston New Road near Blackpool. Plus 25 more events this week about fracking and the onshore oil and gas industry including film screenings, Q+As, training, information meetings, conference and petition presentation.
In this week’s Fracking Week in Parliament: The Scottish Government announces a ban on underground coal gasification and progress on its consultation on fracking. Read the full statement and questions here.
This morning, the Communities Secretary announced he was giving the go-ahead to Cuadrilla’s plans to frack for shale gas at one site in the Fylde near Blackpool.
Francis Egan, Chief Executive, Cuadrilla “We are very pleased that we can now move ahead with our shale gas exploration plans which will start to create new economic growth opportunities and jobs for people in Lancashire and the UK. “As a Lancashire business we are proud that the […]
In the past few minutes, a group fighting Cuadrilla’s scheme to frack at a site in Lancashire has vowed to fight on, despite a go-ahead from the government this morning. (See DrillOrDrop report)
In the past few minutes, the government has given the go ahead for fracking at one site near Blackpool in Lancashire. But it has delayed a decision on plans for another site.
Councillors in Nottinghamshire have delayed their decision on the first planning application for shale gas exploration in the county after being warned approval could allow illegal actions to be carried out on the site.
Check here for live updates from the meeting deciding IGas’s application for two shale gas wells at Springs Road, Misson, north Nottinghamshire. The meeting of the county council’s planning and licensing committee, is at County Hall, starting at 10am. It is expected to hear from the council’s planning […]
Nottinghamshire councillors meet in the morning to decide on the county’s first shale gas planning application.
People living near a proposed oil production site in the South Downs National Park voted almost unanimously last night against the scheme.
DRILL OR DROP? 