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DRILL OR DROP?

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

Happy Christmas 2025 from DrillOrDrop

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 24, 2025

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

Letter reveals Cuadrilla is running out of time to frack Blackpool wells

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 20, 2019 • ( 35 Comments )

Cuadrilla looks likely to miss the planning deadline to frack its second shale gas well at Preston New Road, in Lancashire, correspondence has revealed.

2018 onshore oil production down – under 2% of UK total

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 18, 2019 • ( 12 Comments )

UK onshore oil production fell to a seven-year low in 2018, according to official data.

Campaigner questions “gold standard” regulation after safety failings at drill site

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 17, 2019 • ( 13 Comments )

Staff working for one of the leading contractors in the UK onshore oil and gas industry breached health and safety regulations and failed to follow best practice during a single routine task, the industry regulator has concluded.

Photo post: Equipment leaves Cuadrilla’s fracking site

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 17, 2019 • ( 16 Comments )

Lorries have been taking equipment off Cuadrilla’s fracking site near Blackpool over the past two days.

Officials back mine gas scheme near historic gardens

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 17, 2019 • ( 17 Comments )

Nottinghamshire planners are supporting proposals to drill for gas from an abandoned colliery near Rufford Abbey.

Third eviction of drill site protest camp

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 16, 2019 • ( 24 Comments )

A road-side camp used to monitor operations at an oil and gas site north of Hull was evicted for the third time today.

Two oil companies pull out of Weald licence

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 16, 2019 • ( 7 Comments )

UK Oil & Gas plc has acquired the interests of two companies in the Holmwood exploration licence, south of Dorking in Surrey.

Anti-fracking protest blocks Manchester supply company

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 15, 2019 • ( 65 Comments )

Two campaigners locked themselves together in a protest outside an industrial cleaning company early this morning.

Regulators accused of “extraordinary hands-off” approach to South Downs oil well

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 12, 2019 • ( 32 Comments )

An oil exploration well in one of the most sensitive parts of the country has lacked scrutiny because of legal loopholes.

No guarantor for Third Energy’s fracking and drilling plans

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 11, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )

The government has confirmed that no guarantor is required to underwrite Third Energy’s commitments to frack one well a year in Ryedale, North Yorkshire, until 2022.

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