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DRILL OR DROP?

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

Campaigners launch fundraiser for legal challenge on methane pollution

By Ruth Hayhurst on September 7, 2026

“No date” yet for Horse Hill decision

By Ruth Hayhurst on September 6, 2026

Union Jack takeover update

By Ruth Hayhurst on September 6, 2026

UKOG name change

By Ruth Hayhurst on September 6, 2026

Cuadrilla’s Balcombe claim contradicts officials and partner

By Ruth Hayhurst on August 31, 2026

Rathlin board changes

By Ruth Hayhurst on August 27, 2026

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.

8-hour lock-on protest blocks deliveries to West Newton well site

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 10, 2019 • ( 25 Comments )

Deliveries to Rathlin Energy’s East Yorkshire oil and gas exploration site were prevented by protests for a second day this week.

Lorry protest as Rathlin delivers drilling rig to East Yorkshire exploration site

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 8, 2019 • ( 12 Comments )

A woman campaigner has climbed on top of drilling equipment on its way to an oil and gas site in East Yorkshire.

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