Cuadrilla’s Australian owner spent more than £0.75m in six months in the UK in 2023, more than double the amount in the previous year. But the company has no plans for future “substantive expenditure” on UK shale gas.
Lord Deben, the Conservative peer and former chair of the Climate Change Committee, has made a dramatic intervention at the High Court in support of a legal challenge that accuses the government of breaching the Climate Change Act.
Three organisations are taking the government to the High Court this morning alleging that the UK climate plan is weak and inadequate.
A shale gas well in Nottinghamshire that has been mothballed for more than four years has been decommissioned, officials have confirmed.
Europa Oil & Gas has announced it has been given more time to explore for gas in a licence in North Yorkshire
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Licences to produce gas in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire have lapsed and the operator, Third Energy, has been acquired by a geothermal group.
UK onshore gas volumes in November fell dramatically with production suspensions at Saltfleetby.
UKOG shares dropped more than a third today on news that the company had abandoned testing the Pinarova-1 well in Turkey. The company said it was “disappointed” that the well had not met its expectations.
The UK must “rapidly replace fossil fuels with low carbon alternatives”, the government’s climate advisor warned today.
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