80+ events in May 2018 about UK fracking and onshore oil and gas, including Ineos and Reach CSG judicial review against the Scottish Government over indefinite fracking moratorium; Final week of Ineos appeal over non-determination of application for shale gas exploration at Harthill; United Resistance campaign continues outside Cuadrilla’s […]
The court considering a challenge to the Scottish Government’s ban on fracking has been told the policy is required to meet climate change commitments.
The outcome of the Roseacre Wood fracking inquiry, which ended last week, will be decided by James Brokenshire.
In this week’s listings: Preliminary hearing in the judicial review brought by INEOS and Reach Coal Seam Gas against the Scottish Government – now including Friends of the Earth Second week of public inquiry into INEOS shale gas plans at Harthill Oral evidence to parliamentary inquiry on planning […]
DrillOrDrop has reported from two shale gas public inquiries this month. Ruth Hayhurst reflects on the challenges facing local people when they take on the industry.
Europa Oil and Gas has withdrawn all the proposals for managing lorries delivering to its exploratory drilling site near Leith Hill in Surrey.
The community group, Harthill Against Fracking, is making a presentation this morning to the inquiry about its opposition to plans by INEOS Upstream to drill a shale gas well at Common Road in their South Yorkshire village.
This post has live updates from the third day of the inquiry into plans by INEOS to drill for shale gas at Harthill in south Yorkshire.
Fracking near geological faults in former coal mining areas could trigger earthquakes and should not take place without careful assessment of all available geological data, according to one of the UK’s leading experts on the subject.
Support for fracking in the UK has risen again, according to the latest findings from a quarterly government survey. Opposition remained unchanged and is still 14 percentage points ahead of support. The results published this morning put support at 18%, up two points on the previous survey. This is […]
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