The fracking company, Cuadrilla, has revealed it is to seek two more years at its mothballed shale gas site near Blackpool – just four days before the land should have been returned to agriculture.
Opponents of oil operations in the West Sussex village of Balcombe have vowed to fight any future proposals for production, despite losing a recent legal challenge.
The former fracking company, Cuadrilla, is seeking another five years to extract gas from its site at Elswick, in Lancashire.
Many residents who attended an information meeting about gas drilling in a North Yorkshire village said they were unconvinced about the plans.
The MP for the North Yorkshire village of Burniston, where there are plans for a form of fracking, has promised to question the government on its commitment to ban the process.
The operator of the UK’s largest onshore gasfield is working with its lender on the potential takeover of production assets off the southern USA.
Cuadrilla’s former fracking site in Lancashire passed a milestone event this morning.
Egdon Resources says it is giving more details this week of its new plans to explore for gas near a village in North Yorkshire.
An oil company has again been given extra time to provide more information about its production plans in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
Emissions from oil produced at two proposed new wells at a site near Scunthorpe would contribute to climate change, officials have said. But they ruled the likely impact wasn’t enough to require a detailed environmental study to support a planning application.
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