Reporting of the regulation of the shale oil and gas and hydraulic fracturing industry, including planning permissions and permits
Officials have taken the first steps to force IGas to restore its shale gas site at Misson Springs in Nottinghamshire. Correspondence seen by DrillOrDrop confirms that IGas has failed to begun restoration work on time. Because of the lack of progress, Nottinghamshire County Council has now served Restoration […]
Councillors in Surrey have refused permission for a scheme to produce hydrogen at a gas site near Bletchingley.
The county which hosted the UK’s only high volume fracking sites voted unanimously this afternoon to keep planning decisions on the process with the local planning authority.
Conservative-controlled Nottinghamshire County Council is looking at options to ensure IGas restores the Springs Road shale gas site at Misson.
The company behind long-term oil extraction at Biscathorpe in the Lincolnshire Wolds was accused today of inconsistencies in its plans.
An oil company wants to truck radioactive liquid about 40 miles to dispose underground at a site near Dorking in Surrey.
Less than a fortnight before an appeal on plans for long-term oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds, the operator has made a new offer.
Two sides in the planning dispute over long-term oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds get the chance to put their case at a hearing next week.
The oil production site on cliffs at Kimmeridge bay in Dorset has installed a flare to burn waste gas – despite being ordered three years ago to use the gas to generate electricity.
Surrey council planners have recommended refusal of plans by IGas for hydrogen production in the green belt.
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