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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

By Ruth Hayhurst on December 12, 2025

New Wressle application published with wrong location plan

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 17, 2018 • ( 21 Comments )

The latest application by Egdon Resources for the Wressle oil site near Scunthorpe has been published on the North Lincolnshire Council website. But a key document – one of the location plans – is for a site about 100 miles away.

Forest Enterprise boss refuses to meet residents and MEP at Surrey oil site

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 17, 2018 • ( 6 Comments )

The head of Forest Enterprise in England has declined to meet Surrey residents and the local MEP to discuss concerns about oil drilling on the organisation’s land near Dorking.

Cuadrilla completes second shale gas well and prepares to frack as hosepipe ban is announced

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 17, 2018 • ( 64 Comments )

Cuadrilla said this morning it had finished drilling the UK’s second horizontal shale gas well and would soon prepare for hydraulic fracturing at the site in Lancashire. The announcement coincided with news that a hose pipe ban for residents in the county would begin on 5 August.

What’s happening this week? 16-22 July 2018

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 15, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

In this week’s listings Court case in York of anti-fracking campaigner Meet the Regulators drop-in Lincolnshire Gatherings outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site Public meetings Information events Diary for all of July 2018 and beyond. Please let us know here if you’d like us to add your events or if any […]

Farmer joins National Trust as Ineos shale gas access case heads towards trial

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 13, 2018 • ( 46 Comments )

A tenant farmer has joined the National Trust in its challenge to the shale gas company, Ineos, in a court case over land access.

Earthquake monitors installed in Surrey – welcomed by campaigners

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 12, 2018 • ( 34 Comments )

The British Geological Survey has installed two seismic monitors in Surrey to track earthquakes following a recent cluster centred near Newdigate.

Legal precedent and costs are major hurdles to challenging fracking injunctions, campaigners say

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 11, 2018 • ( 54 Comments )

Campaigners who failed to block an injunction against protests outside Cuadrilla’s Lancashire fracking site said the fight was not over. But they said case law and the cost of legal action were major hurdles.

Breaking: Judge grants Cuadrilla injunction over Lancs fracking site to 2020

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 11, 2018 • ( 39 Comments )

A High Court judge has granted Cuadrilla its injunction against specific anti-fracking protests around its shale gas site near Blackpool.

Minister quizzed on impact of fracking on UK climate targets

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 11, 2018 • ( 15 Comments )

Fracking Week in Parliament. The Government was questioned this week on the impact that fracking would have on meeting the UK’s climate change targets.

Cuadrilla injunction evidence based on “allegations, conjecture, exaggeration and hearsay”, court told

By Ruth Hayhurst on July 10, 2018 • ( 25 Comments )

The shale gas company, Cuadrilla, was accused at the High Court today of trying to “demonise” anti-fracking protester to support its case for an injunction.

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