Earlier today, Lancashire County Council planners recommended approval of Cuadrilla’s application to frack at Preston New Road in the Fylde. Drill Or Drop has been looking at the planners’ report to find out how they came up with this recommendation and what conditions they think should be imposed […]
A crowdfunded leaflet about fracking is to be reprinted after distributing 80,000 copies in a month.
A resident’s group in the West Sussex village of Balcombe is urging people to object to proposed regulations that would allow the standard use of dilute hydrofluoric acid in a drilling operation.
Opponents of fracking in Lancashire have published a map, which they say shows what the area would look like if Cuadrilla built its planned number of shale gas wellpads.
The volume of oil in the area round Gatwick could be 70% higher than previously estimated, according to UK Oil and Gas.
Full coverage of this morning’s decision meeting on DriiOrDrop
Opponents of Rathlin Energy’s plans for another exploratory gas wellsite in the West Newton area of East Yorkshire have been lobbying decision-makers ahead of a crucial meeting tomorrow.
Planners in Preston are recommending the city council objects to Cuadrilla’s application to frack up to four wells at Roseacre in the Fylde area of Lancashire because of concerns about traffic. And there are suggestions that Lancashire County Council’s Highways officers are still worried that lorries travelling to […]
As East Yorkshire councillors prepare to decide on plans by Rathlin Energy for a third oil and gas exploration site, the company declined to comment about allegations that its seismic testing programme damaged local property.
Council officers are recommending approval of plans for another exploratory gas well in Holderness, East Yorkshire.
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