Reporting of the regulation of the shale oil and gas and hydraulic fracturing industry, including planning permissions and permits
We’ve compiled a list to show which companies have been granted oil and gas exploration licences and where they are. The licences were confirmed by the Oil and Gas Authority today (17th December 2015) and cover England only.
Councillors in north Nottinghamshire are being advised not to object to a plan by IGas for shale exploration at Misson in Bassetlaw. But a new report opposing the scheme has said it is flawed and puts drinking water at risk.
North Yorkshire County Council, which will decide a planning application next year for hydraulic fracturing, has defended pension fund investments in the fossil fuel industry.
The site for a proposed coal bed methane exploration borehole at Bryntywod near Llangyfelach, photographed this morning during a visit by members of Swansea Council’s planning committee.
Residents of a small village near Swansea are to make a formal complaint about how councillors decided a planning application for coal bed methane exploration near their homes.
Third Energy agrees to February decision date and Ryedale DC defers discussion again Councillors in Ryedale in North Yorkshire have delayed for a second time their consideration of plans to frack at Kirby Misperton . Ryedale District Council’s planning committee, meeting last night, deferred debate on Third Energy’s […]
Plans to test the Horse Hill exploratory oil well near Gatwick Airport came a step closer this week.
A second public consultation opens today on whether Third Energy should receive environmental permits to carry out fracking at a well at Kirby Misperton in North Yorkshire.
The government is seeking to change the rules that help people make legal challenges to environmental decisions. The proposals, if approved, could make it more expensive and risky to seek a judicial review of planning decisions.
As a government decision to have the final say on Cuadrilla’s fracking appeals made the headlines last week (see DrillOrDrop report), another appeal involving the company got underway more quietly.
DRILL OR DROP? 