Campaigners have described as a “terrible precedent” the dismissal of their High Court action against the ministerial approval of fracking at a site in Lancashire.
A community group and an anti-fracking campaigner have lost their legal challenge against the Communities’ Secretary over the way he granted permission for fracking at a site in Lancashire.
The chemical company, INEOS, is facing months of delays over access to council-owned land to carry out surveys for shale gas.
Plans to frack for shale gas in Lancashire resulted in individual harm and a “considerable toll” on the local community, even before drilling began, according to a new study.
Egdon Resources plc announced this morning it had begun its appeal against the refusal of planning consent for its Wressle oil site near Scunthorpe.
In this update of protests about fracking and the onshore oil and gas industry: Final action of Reclaim the Power’s Break the Chain protest at fracking supply companies 24-hour lorry protest at Preston New Road Lock-on at Maxx Piling Stockholders in Horwich, Bolton Blockade at Eddie Stobart depot […]
In this week’s listings: 20+ meetings, announcements, deadlines, performances and presentations. Ruling listed at the Royal Courts of Justice for decision in the legal challenge to the Communities’ Secretary approval of planning permission for Preston New Road (announced 11/4/2017) Please let us know (click here) if any of these […]
An oil company has defended its plans to drill new wells in the South Downs National Park near a source of drinking water, despite the objection of the Environment Agency.
In this guest post, Corporate Watch reveals that the UK fracking company, Cuadrilla, has used legislation designed to increase corporate transparency to hide the identity of the people who control it.
Plans to produce oil at a site in the South Downs could pose an unacceptable risk to a nearby source of drinking water, the Environment Agency has said.
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