Reporting of the politics at national and local level of the shale gas and fracking debate
Transcripts of parliamentary questions, answers and debates on fracking and onshore oil and gas for the week ending 31st October 2014 Costs of the 14th licensing round Number of objections to fracking With thanks to Theyworkforyou.com
What’s happening in November? The judicial review of Cuadrilla’s planning permission at Balcombe, debates on fracking in the House of Lords, at Oxfordshire County Council and in Kent, and a decision on Dart Energy’s plans at Ellesmere. Also seminars, meetings, roadshows and information events.
The prospect of Cuadrilla’s proposed fracking sites near Blackpool is already causing fear, anxiety, stress, sleep disturbance and depression among people living nearby, according to study for Lancashire County Council.
The human rights campaigner, Bianca Jagger, has called on the UK government to ban fracking until there is an understanding of its effects on human rights.
A local council tried to buy petroleum drilling licences to prevent fracking around a World Heritage Site. But the government refused to let it bid in the latest selling round.
Events and key dates on drilling, fracking and onshore oil and gas developments Friday, 24 October 2014 Deadline for comments on Third Energy UK’s applications for North York Moors National Park Authority and North Yorkshire County Council for a gas production site and reinjection well at Ebberston South. […]
Lancashire County Council said today it needs more time to make a decision on Cuadrilla’s planning applications to drill and hydraulic fracture up to eight gas wells in the Fyld near Blackpool.
West Sussex County Council says it is continuing to monitor operations at Celtique Energie’s drilling site near Billingshurst after a report that a planning condition had been broken. The company denies there was a breach.
Councillors in West Sussex decided this morning not to accept or reject a call to make the county a frack free zone. But they acknowledged the concerns of residents about fracking.
Labour county councillors pose with opponents of fracking before the discussion of a petition calling for West Sussex to be made a frack-free zone.
DRILL OR DROP? 