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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

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Breaking: Permission refused again for Egdon’s Wressle oil production scheme

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 28, 2018 • ( 39 Comments )

This post has live updates from the meeting of North Lincolnshire Council discussing Egdon Resources’ proposal for long-term oil production at the Wressle site near Scunthorpe.

Picture post: IGas announces spud of Tinker Lane shale gas well after 80+ hour protest

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 27, 2018 • ( 82 Comments )

The shale gas company, IGas, announced this morning it had begun drilling its well at Tinker Lane near Blyth in north Nottinghamshire.

Angus faces new controls over gas, acid and reinjection at Brockham oil site

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 26, 2018 • ( 58 Comments )

Updated  27/11/2018 New rules came into force today which could delay production from the Kimmeridge oil well at Angus Energy’s site at Brockham in Surrey.

Final weeks of consultation on Scottish government policy against fracking

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 24, 2018 • ( 67 Comments )

  People have three more weeks to give their views on the Scottish government’s policy not to support fracking.

Residents report work underway to abandon Markwells Wood oil site in South Downs

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 23, 2018 • ( 24 Comments )

A residents’ group in the South Downs is reporting that UK Oil & Gas is pulling out of its exploration site at Markwells Wood.

Surrey earthquakes: no link to oil and gas sites, says report, but one expert disagrees

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 22, 2018 • ( 71 Comments )

A report on the swarm of earthquakes in Surrey earlier this year finds no evidence they were triggered by oil and gas operations. But an academic who contributed to the official investigation into the cause of the quakes disagrees with the conclusion and critics of onshore drilling have […]

Planners back Egdon’s Wressle oil production scheme for the third time

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 22, 2018 • ( 24 Comments )

Planning officers have for the third time recommended approval of proposals by Egdon Resources for 15 years of oil production at its site at Wressle near Scunthorpe.

Campaigners demand answers to why Cuadrilla has stopped fracking

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 22, 2018 • ( 70 Comments )

Neighbours of Cuadrilla’s shale gas site in Lancashire are living in an “information vacuum”, campaigners said today after an apparent pause in fracking for three weeks.

Air pollution study exposes fracking risks, say campaigners

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 21, 2018 • ( 23 Comments )

Increases in air pollution linked to preparations for fracking in North Yorkshire could happen anywhere the operation is planned, shale gas opponents said today.

Energy minister promises to visit anti-fracking protesters

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 20, 2018 • ( 95 Comments )

The energy and clean growth minister, Claire Perry, told the House of Commons today she would go to Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road fracking site and would visit protesters.

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