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DRILL OR DROP?

10+ years of independent journalism on UK fracking, onshore oil and gas and the reactions to it

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

INEOS accused of bullying landowners to gain access for fracking surveys

By Ruth Hayhurst on February 5, 2017 • ( 15 Comments )

The shale gas company, INEOS, has been accused of bullying landowners to allow access for geological surveys.

What’s happening this week? 6-11 February 2017

By Ruth Hayhurst on February 5, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

In this week’s events listing:  Latest government data on attitudes to fracking Nottingham Secular Society debate on fracking Seminars on the world energy outlook and carbon capture and storage Plus activists’ summits, planning meetings and film screening 

Fracking Week in Parliament: 30 January-3 February 2017

By Ruth Hayhurst on February 4, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

In this Fracking Week in Parliament Graham Jones on the cost of policing anti-fracking protests Mark Menzies on action over Lancashire’s recommendations on fracking health risks

January 2017 drilling headlines

By Ruth Hayhurst on February 4, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

DrillOrDrop’s monthly digest of news about fracking, shale and onshore oil and gas

Legal agreement on first Notts shale site delayed again

By Ruth Hayhurst on February 3, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

A legal agreement required for final planning consent at Nottinghamshire’s first shale gas site has been delayed for another month.

Brockham could open up oil exploration in the Weald – Lenigas

By Ruth Hayhurst on February 2, 2017 • ( 15 Comments )

The Australian investor, David Lenigas, says the Brockham well near Dorking in Surrey is key to unlocking potential oil production in the Weald Basin in southern England.

Residents demand stricter monitoring of Cuadrilla’s fracking site

By Ruth Hayhurst on February 2, 2017 • ( 21 Comments )

Residents living near Cuadrilla’s fracking site in Lancashire have called for tougher action from the authorities.

Drilling Diary – February 2017

By Ruth Hayhurst on February 1, 2017 • ( 3 Comments )

60+ events about UK fracking and onshore oil and gas, including Meet the Regulator drop-ins, debates, presentations, meetings, film screenings, consultation deadlines and protests.

Fracking in Derbyshire: a tale of two exhibitions

By Ruth Hayhurst on January 31, 2017 • ( 11 Comments )

The two sides of the fracking debate made their case in a small village in north Derbyshire this afternoon.

Protest update: 30 January-5 February 2017

By Ruth Hayhurst on January 31, 2017 • ( 19 Comments )

In this week’s post: Security guard and woman protester injured by contractor vehicle at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road plus an early morning lock-on protest March through the village of Marsh Lane of opponents of INEOS plans for shale gas exploration Closure of Brockham Protection Camp

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