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10+ years of independent journalism on UK fracking, onshore oil and gas and the reactions to it

Call for delay to Burniston gas decision over planning policy shift

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 22, 2025

Government to rule on Waddock Cross environmental study

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 18, 2025

Horse Hill – key details delayed

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 17, 2025

Breaking: Oil companies drop Biscathorpe appeal

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 15, 2025

UKOG reveals reasons for Weald licence surrender

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 12, 2025

Broadford Bridge clean-up imminent, says council

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 11, 2025

Council votes to extend life of Ryedale gas fields to 2035

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 9, 2020 • ( 11 Comments )

Third Energy’s Ryedale gas fields can continue working until 2035, councillors in North Yorkshire unanimously agreed today, despite hearing that the most recent “meaningful production” at some sites was in 2012.

Planners back five more years at Cuadrilla’s suspended gas site

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 7, 2020 • ( 25 Comments )

Cuadrilla should be allowed to keep its long-standing Elswick gas production site, Lancashire planners said today, even though there’s been no extraction for more than seven years.

Breaking: Broadford Bridge oil site gets two more years – live news updates

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 7, 2020 • ( 8 Comments )

Broadford Bridge exploration site. Photo: Broadford Bridge Action Group Councillors in West Sussex have voted by 10-1 to allow another two years at  the oil exploration site at Broadford Bridge.

Officials urged to rethink backing for Broadford Bridge planning extension

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 6, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

Campaigners have urged planners to drop their support for more time at an oil exploration site in West Sussex.

Cuadrilla hints at a long game for UK fracking

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 6, 2020 • ( 73 Comments )

Lancashire shale gas will take longer to exploit than expected but the potential value remains, Cuadrilla’s chief executive told an Australian business newspaper today.

Fossil fuel protest at Horse Hill oil site

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 6, 2020 • ( 8 Comments )

Climate change activists walked in front of a tanker this morning due to collect from UKOG’s Horse Hill oil production site in Surrey.

Rathlin chair retires

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 3, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

The chair of Rathlin Energy, David Montagu-Smith, has left the board, the company has announced.

Egdon seeks second time extension for oil drilling at North Kelsey

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 3, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Egdon Resources is seeking to extend its planning consent for oil exploration at North Kelsey in Lincolnshire for another year.

Centrica pulls out of Cuadrilla’s Lancashire shale gas licence

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 3, 2020 • ( 8 Comments )

Centrica is giving up its stake in Cuadrilla’s shale gas licence in the Fylde near Blackpool.

Public health concerns about fracking were marginalised or ignored in England – new research

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 2, 2020 • ( 28 Comments )

The UK Government and its advisers “marginalised, downplayed or ignored” public health concerns about shale gas exploration and fracking in England,  new research has concluded.

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