Reporting of the regulation of the shale oil and gas and hydraulic fracturing industry, including planning permissions and permits
Council officials have supported plans for more time at an undeveloped well site in Lincolnshire, where the only work carried out since 2014 has been on the site entrance.
The Environment Agency is seeking public comments on its expected approval of a wide range of new operations at the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey.
A blueprint for future oil and gas sites in Derbyshire leaves the way open to fracking, despite a moratorium on the process.
The UK’s official advisor on climate change has said it would support a government presumption against future oil and gas exploration.
A challenge has begun to the refusal of testing at the Balcombe oil site in West Sussex.
A council which backed fracking nearly six years ago has adopted new planning rules that could restrict proposals for the controversial process.
The operator of a Lincolnshire oil site, where only limited work has been carried out since 2014, has been accused of “planning by stealth”.
At least 14 onshore oil and gas schemes are going through the planning system in England, DrillOrDrop research has revealed.
A tree planting scheme on the site of a former oil site in the South Downs National Park has failed.
Oil and gas wells planned in East Yorkshire could be drilled under five villages, new maps have revealed.
DRILL OR DROP? 