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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

What Notts planners said about IGas’s shale gas scheme at Tinker Lane?

By Ruth Hayhurst on March 14, 2017 • ( 18 Comments )

Planners have recommended approval of shale gas plans at Tinker Lane in north Nottinghamshire, subject to a legal agreement and 52 conditions.

Campaigners take minister to court over consent for Lancashire fracking plans

By Ruth Hayhurst on March 13, 2017 • ( 18 Comments )

Opponents of plans to frack in Lancashire will be at the High Court in Manchester on Wednesday to challenge the approval of planning permission for Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site.

Breaking: Nottinghamshire planners recommend approval of Tinker Lane shale gas well

By Ruth Hayhurst on March 13, 2017 • ( 18 Comments )

Planners at Nottinghamshire County Council are recommending approval of an application by IGas to drill a shale gas well at Tinker Lane, between Blyth and Barnby Moor.

Opposition mobilises as INEOS unveils plans for second shale gas site

By Ruth Hayhurst on March 13, 2017 • ( 20 Comments )

INEOS has begun the planning process for a second site for shale gas exploration – this time in Rotherham borough.

Photo post: Walkers complete 120 miles between Yorks and Lancs fracking sites

By Ruth Hayhurst on March 12, 2017 • ( 37 Comments )

Opponents of fracking reached the end of a 120-mile walk this afternoon between shale gas sites in North Yorkshire and Lancashire.

Protest update: 6-12 March 2017

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

Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site More arrests Police and Crime Commissioner visits the site Complaints of large police presence Anti-fracking march from North Yorkshire to Lancashire 

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

By Ruth Hayhurst on March 12, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

In this week’s listings: A community group and a campaigner taken on the Communities Secretary in the High Court over permission for fracking at Preston New Road, Lancashire Final day for comments on the minerals plan for West Sussex and the South Downs National Park Parliamentary meeting on […]

Monday deadline to comment on future policy for South Downs oil drilling

By Ruth Hayhurst on March 11, 2017 • ( 17 Comments )

There are two more days left to comment on future planning policy for oil and gas exploration and production in West Sussex and the South Downs National Park.

Fracking Week in Parliament: 6-10 March 2017

By Ruth Hayhurst on March 11, 2017 • ( 28 Comments )

In this Fracking Week in Parliament: Peers debate the pros and cons of shale gas Grant Shapps on potential economic benefits

“Government approved fracking so it should pay for protest police” – Lancs PCC

By Ruth Hayhurst on March 10, 2017 • ( 27 Comments )

Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire said this evening the government had given the go-ahead for fracking in the county and so it should pay to police the protests.

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