Council says no to Fylde fracking
Anti-fracking campaigners in Lancashire are celebrating the first success in their bid to oppose Cuadrilla’s plans to hydraulically fracture up to eight shale gas wells in the Fylde.
Drilling underway at Surrey site – oil firm
The Denver-based oil and gas company, Magellan Petroleum Corporation, has confirmed in a statement that drilling operations at the Horse Hill-1 exploratory oil well near Horley in Surrey began on September 3rd 2014.
Drilling in the SE – the state of play
Celtique Energie’s chief executive Geoff Davies said last week it appeared that oil and gas operators were being “deliberately prevented from exploring in south east England”. He was responding to the refusal of his company’s planning application to drill an exploratory oil well at Fernhurst in the South […]
Work starts at West Sussex drill site
Preparation for Celtique Energie’s Broadford Bridge well Celtique Energie announced today that it had begun work on a temporary access road to its hydrocarbon exploration site near Billinghurst in West Sussex.
Fracking Diary
Events coming up on fracking and onshore oil and gas Monday 15th September 2014 Protect our coast and Glens. Lock the gate information evening, 7pm-9pm, The Windrose, 5 Rodgers Quay, Carrickfergus. Details Screening of Disruption (new film about climate action), 7pm-9pm, The Vaults, Oxford, OX1 4AH. Details UK […]
Fracking Week in Westminster (8-12 Sept)
Transcripts of this week’s parliamentary questions and statements on: Drilling in National Parks Redacted reports Shale gas and the heavy industry Coal gasificaton With thanks to TheyWorkForYou.com
Campaigners celebrate rejection of South Downs drilling application
No exceptional circumstances to justify drilling in the National Park, committee says. Companies being prevented from drilling in the SE, says Celtique Energie Opponents of drilling in the South Downs National Park celebrated this morning after the rejection of Celtique Energie’s application for an exploratory oil well near […]
Shale industry ready to talk about fracking
After months of shying away from debates about fracking, the onshore oil and gas industry now wants to talk. The industry body UK Onshore Oil and Gas (UKOOG) is inviting people to submit questions about shale to its new Talk about shale website.
Police reflect on Balcombe protest one year on
Police liaison officer denies his team collected intelligence on campaigners In the final interview of our series Balcombe One Year On, Sergeant Mark Redbourn, a Police Liaison Officer with Sussex Police, looks back on the highs and lows of the anti-fracking protests outside Cuadrilla’s oil exploration site. During […]
Fracking diary
Events coming up in September on fracking and onshore oil and gas drilling Wednesday 10th SeptemberElizabeth Truss MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Dr Paul Leinster, Chief Executive, Environment Agency, give evidence to the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs select […]
DRILL OR DROP? 