A small group of campaigners is seeking to challenge the decision by a planning inspector to allow long-term oil production in one of the country’s most beautiful areas.
Campaigners and councillors have said they are shocked that a government-appointed inspector has overturned the refusal of planning permission for long-term oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB).
Villagers are seeking to overturn a judge’s ruling which gave the go-ahead to a well test at the Balcombe oil site in West Sussex.
The company which operates the mothballed oil site at Balcombe in West Sussex has been accused of misrepresenting history in a comment on fracking.
Hundreds of people are expected to join marches across the UK this weekend as part of a global call for a rapid phase out of fossil fuels.
Campaigners opposing onshore oil and gas developments in south east England are travelling to Cumbria to join a protest against a new coal mine in Whitehaven.
Climate campaigners staged a protest at one of the UK’s biggest music festivals, against plans to revive oil production on the estate where the event is held.
Opponents of Cuadrilla’s fracking operation in Lancashire have welcomed today’s news that the company has been ordered to decommission two shale gas wells.
Opponents of oil exploration and production at North Kelsey in Lincolnshire have criticised Egdon Resources for its eleventh-hour withdrawal from an appeal hearing.
The plan to drill for oil near the Lincolnshire village of North Kelsey conflicts with the UK’s international commitments to tackle climate change, a leading scientist has warned.
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