60+ events in July about fracking and onshore oil and gas, including Reclaim the Power’s promised Rolling Resistance against shale gas development in Lancashire, plus planning and information meetings, council decisions, training, presentations and exhibitions.
UK Oil and Gas Investments is looking to invest in new oil exploration and production across southern England, its half-year accounts stated today.
West Sussex County Council has confirmed that the company behind oil drilling at Broadford Bridge, near Billingshurst, is to seek an extension to its planning permission for the site.
Anti-fracking campaigners have been protesting this morning outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site near Blackpool and at a supplier of drilling equipment in Derbyshire.
Opponents of shale gas have promised “an unprecedented month of resistance against fracking in the UK”, starting tomorrow (1 July 2017).
Two-thirds of people surveyed in Lancashire opposed fracking within five miles of their home, according to a new poll published today.
The Environment Agency announced today it had granted a permit to INEOS for proposed shale gas exploration at the village of Marsh Lane in north east Derbyshire.
The UK must take rapid action to deal with any leaks from onshore shale gas wells, as part of efforts to avoid breaching carbon budgets, the government’s adviser on climate change said today.
More than 450 people filled Lytham’s Lowther Pavilion Theatre for the first town-hall style meeting on fracking in Fylde for more than two years. Speakers are the event are Fylde resident and engineer, Mike Hill, and retired medical consultant, Dr Frank Rugman. The event is chaired by Charles […]
DrillOrDrop’s weekly digest from the UK’s parliaments returns after the local and the general elections with peers quizzing the government on its shale gas policy.
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