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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

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By Ruth Hayhurst on December 18, 2025

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By Ruth Hayhurst on December 17, 2025

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Guest Post: Trojan horse fracking application shows failure of planning law

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 16, 2016 • ( 50 Comments )

Guest post by Chris Redston Chris Redston, a campaigner with Frack Free Ryedale, comments on what yesterday’s approval of exploratory shale gas drilling at Misson says about the planning system On Tuesday Nottinghamshire County Council approved an application from fracking company IGas for exploratory drilling for shale gas at Misson […]

N Yorks council failed to assess fracking impact on bats – Friends of the Earth

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 16, 2016 • ( 23 Comments )

Councillors deciding Third Energy’s fracking application in North Yorkshire were given “misleading” information about bats flying over the wellsite, Friends of the Earth said today.

Green light for first E Mids shale gas plan – but with 40 conditions and a restoration bond

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 15, 2016 • ( 86 Comments )

Nottinghamshire councillors have approved the first shale gas application in the East Midlands. At a meeting of the county council’s planning committee, members voted 7-4 in favour of IGas’s plans for two exploratory shale gas wells at Springs Road, Misson. Click here for who voted how on the […]

Live updates: IGas shale plans for Springs Road, Misson approved

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 15, 2016 • ( 61 Comments )

Councillors in Nottinghamshire resume their discussion at 10.30am of an application by IGas to drill  two shale gas wells at Springs Road, Misson, in Bassetlaw. The decision was deferred on 5 October to allow the county council to take legal advice on a covenant on a neighbouring nature […]

Sell-out play on fracking gets UK tour

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 14, 2016 • ( 6 Comments )

A play about a campaign against fracking, which sold out every performance at Chichester Festival Theatre earlier this year, is to go on a regional tour.

First Notts shale gas plan back before councillors

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 14, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

Councillors in Nottinghamshire resume discussions in the morning (15/11/2016) on an IGas plan to drill two shale gas wells at Misson in Bassetlaw.

Court date for anti-fracking campaigner facing jail

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 14, 2016 • ( 55 Comments )

A prominent anti-fracking campaigner facing a fortnight in jail has a final chance to avoid the sentence at a court hearing next month.

What’s happening this week? 14-20 November 2016

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 14, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

This week’s diary features the decision meeting on IGas’s application to drill for shale at Springs Road, Misson in Nottinghamshire. Plus details of a resumed trial, two consultation deadlines, two conferences, talks, meetings, presentations, a film screening and a fundraiser. 

Francis Egan on drilling in 2017, low gas prices, financing expansion and how many wells can you fit on a site

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 13, 2016 • ( 128 Comments )

The chief executive of shale gas company, Cuadrilla, gave evidence last week to peers on his company’s operations, financing and plans for the future.

Updated: Pictures and messages from United Against Fracking rally

By Ruth Hayhurst on November 12, 2016 • ( 98 Comments )

Organisers estimated up to 2,000 anti-fracking campaigners marched through Manchester today as part of the United Against Fracking demonstration. Police estimated the numbers at about 1,000.

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