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DRILL OR DROP?

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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

Letters call for fracking ban as Third Energy waits to fracture well in Yorkshire village

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 13, 2017 • ( 32 Comments )

As Third Energy prepares for the UK’s first high volume hydraulic fracture for six years, nearly 200 organisations have called for an immediate stop on all fracking activities.

What’s happening this week? 13-19 November 2017

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 12, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

In this week’s listings Anti-fracking rally at Ellesmere Port; Continuing inquiry into Egdon Resources plans for Wressle site near Scunthorpe; Trial of 13 people who took part in a lock-on at Cuadrilla’s shale gas site in July; Labour Party day of action outside Third Energy’s Kirby Misperton fracking site; […]

Updated: Local people should have greater say in decisions – Government response on shale wealth fund

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 11, 2017 • ( 43 Comments )

Updated 13 November 2017 with reaction to the shale wealth fund proposals Communities should have greater control of the decisions that affect them, the government said today in its response to a consultation on the proposed shale wealth fund.

MPs quiz ministers on fracking baselines, monitoring, climate tests and planning changes

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 10, 2017 • ( 29 Comments )

Fracking Week in Parliament 6-10 November 2017. The Green Party’s MP, Caroline Lucas, pressed ministers this week on whether Third Energy’s plans for fracking at Kirby Misperton had passed tests required by the regulators.

Police drag Green Party co-leader from N Yorks fracking site

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 10, 2017 • ( 21 Comments )

The co-leader of the Green Party, Jonathan Bartley, was dragged by police away from the entrance to Third Energy’s fracking site at Kirby Misperton this afternoon.

Live updates: Egdon’s Wressle planning inquiry Day 4

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 10, 2017 • ( 62 Comments )

Live updates from the final full day of evidence at the public inquiry into plans by Egdon Resources to produce oil from its site at Wressle in Lincolnshire.

Live updates: Egdon’s Wressle planning inquiry Day 3

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 9, 2017 • ( 22 Comments )

Live updates from the third day of the public inquiry into plans by Egdon Resources to produce oil from its site at Wressle in Lincolnshire.

Ready to frack – Third Energy tells residents

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 8, 2017 • ( 47 Comments )

Third Energy has told people living near its Kirby Misperton gas site in North Yorkshire that it is preparing to frack.

Official criticism of Angus Energy’s drilling and management at Brockham oil site

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 8, 2017 • ( 7 Comments )

The regulator of the oil and gas industry has criticised Angus Energy over its operation at Brockham near Dorking.

Notts oil site granted five planning consents runs out of time to drill wells

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 8, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

A Nottinghamshire oil site has run out of time to drill any wells, even though it has been granted five consecutive planning consents.

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