Councillors back local fracking controls for North Yorkshire
A council which backed fracking nearly six years ago has adopted new planning rules that could restrict proposals for the controversial process.
Reporting of the regulation of the shale oil and gas and hydraulic fracturing industry, including planning permissions and permits
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.
People have until the end of this week to respond to proposals to extend the life of the West Newton-B oil and gas site in East Yorkshire.
Egdon Resources announced this morning it has lodged an appeal against the refusal of its planning application for oil production at Biscathorpe in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
Plans to produce oil for 20 years near a historic country house in Dorset are still being considered, despite limited progress over the past 18 months.
Hundreds of tonnes of climate-warming methane is being released into the atmosphere by the UK’s longest continuously producing onshore oil well, despite curbs ordered by the environmental regulator.
Rathlin Energy’s plans for expansion and production at its West Newton-A site have been published online.