March 2022 headlines
Keep up to date with March 2022’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas.
Ruth Hayhurst
Investigative journalist and environmental writer. Specialising in UK onshore oil and gas, fracking and the reaction to it.
Third Energy awarded government funding for heat network study using old gas wells
Third Energy has received a grant of £50,250 to assess the feasibility of using geothermal energy from its former gas wells to power heat networks in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire.
UN climate report is an “atlas of human suffering”
Climate change driven by humans is already causing dangerous and widespread disruption, international scientists warned this morning.
Cuadrilla spent $0.9m in six months on fracking strategies and licence admin
The shale gas company, Cuadrilla, spent $900,000 in six months last year mostly on strategies to lift the fracking moratorium and administer its UK licences, it emerged today.
CCC backs limits on UK oil and gas production and a presumption against future exploration
The UK’s official advisor on climate change has said it would support a government presumption against future oil and gas exploration.
Government stands firm on fracking moratorium
The government has restated its support for the moratorium on fracking in England.
Frack site flare disappears from view
One of the flare stacks at Cuadrilla’s Lancashire fracking site was no longer visible this morning.
Shale supporters challenged over fracking facts
The accuracy of facts supporting calls to lift England’s fracking moratorium have been contested.
“No new fossil fuel projects compatible with stable climate” – campaign group
Opponents of fossil fuel developments in southern England have described the government’s climate criteria for future oil and gas licences as “inherently flawed”.
IGas to explore Cornish geothermal
The oil and gas company, IGas, announced today it is to explore geothermal energy sites in Cornwall.
