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DRILL OR DROP?

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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

Study predicts fracking will not hit Fylde house prices but campaigners question research and findings

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 15, 2015 • ( 2 Comments )

Research published today suggests Cuadrilla’s plans to frack in the Fylde would not affect house prices. But opponents of fracking have criticised the quality of the research and its conclusions.

UK Oil & Gas clarification – “we don’t know how much oil is in the Weald”

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 15, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

UK Oil and Gas Investments, the company that claimed last week it had discovered 100bn barrels of oil in the Weald, announced this morning it doesn’t actually know how much oil there is.

Villagers fight to save historic bridge near proposed oil site

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 14, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

Campaigners in West Sussex are working against the clock to save a historic bridge which was a key defence in the fight against a proposed oil well. They have three weeks to collect about 2,000 signatures to force county councillors to debate the future of Boxal Bridge, between […]

Drilling diary – w/e 10/4/2015

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 10, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

Updated list of events about fracking and onshore oil and gas including: Public meetings Rallies Conferences Planning appeals and decisions Film screenings Anniversary

Reaction to Horse Hill oil find announcement

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 9, 2015 • ( 6 Comments )

Campaigners against oil and gas extraction, reacting to today’s news of a potentially large onshore oil field at Horse Hill in Surrey, called for a move away from fossil fuels.

158m barrels per square mile – latest announcement from Horse Hill oil discovery

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 9, 2015 • ( 5 Comments )

UK Oil & Gas, one of the companies behind the Horse Hill exploratory oil well near Gatwick airport, announced this morning it estimated there were 158m barrels of oil per square mile in the Weald Basin. This could mean 50bn-100bn barrels across the region, meeting up to 30% […]

Delay in confirming refusal of Cuadrilla’s Lancs shale monitoring plans

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 8, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

The reasons for Lancashire County Council’s refusal of permission for Cuadrilla’s shale gas monitoring plans at Grange Road, Singleton have still not been confirmed.

Lancashire villagers on Cuadrilla lorry route gather tonight to fight fracking plans

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 7, 2015 • ( 2 Comments )

People in a village on the revised lorry route to Cuadrilla’s proposed fracking site at Roseacre Wood are meeting tonight (Tuesday) to plan their campaign against the company’s plans.

Cuadrilla plans acoustic barriers up to 14m to reduce noise at Fylde fracking sites

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 4, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

Cuadrilla is proposing to use solid acoustic barriers, up to 14m high, to reduce noise from its planned fracking sites in the Fylde area of Lancashire.

Parents threaten to remove children from school near proposed Cuadrilla fracking site

By Ruth Hayhurst on April 3, 2015 • ( 17 Comments )

Some parents are threatening to take their children out of a primary school one mile from a  proposed fracking sites in the Fylde area of Lancashire if the plans are approved.

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