Reporting of the regulation of the shale oil and gas and hydraulic fracturing industry, including planning permissions and permits
Proposals to explore for gas near the edge of the North York Moors would not cause “significant harm” to the national park, the park’s authority agreed this morning.
The proposal by Europa to explore for gas near the North York Moors National Park “sits uncomfortably” with local climate change commitments, officials have said.
The call for comments on plans to drill for gas and carry out a form of fracking near Scarborough has been extended.
Council officials have taken action against the operator and owner of a West Sussex dormant oil site over clean-up delays.
Residents in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston have a chance to give their views later this month on plans to explore for gas on the edge of the national park and heritage coast.
There is still no date for final clearance of the oil site at the centre of a Supreme Court landmark judgement issued nine months ago.
Waste fluid from oil wells across southern England can be tankered to a village in the Surrey green belt, where it will be pumped underground, councillors decided this morning.
The operators of a mothballed well site in an East Yorkshire village have been accused of apparently “misusing the planning system for their own benefit”.
Planners are supporting proposals to tanker wastewater from oil wells in southern England to inject into site in a Surrey village to boost production.
Cuadrilla had until Sunday 8 June 2025 to restore its former Lancashire fracking site at Preston New Road to farmland. But so far, the work has not started.
DRILL OR DROP? 