Opponents of plans to drill and frack in a North Yorkshire village have criticised the “inappropriate” technology, “inadequate” risk assessments, missing, incorrect and inconsistent information and a failure to consider vulnerable people. Europa Oil & Gas contacted DrillOrDrop about this article on 30 September 2025. We have published […]
About 1,400 formal objections have been submitted in a public consultation on the Europa Oil & Gas exploration plans near the North York Moors national park. At the time of writing, just seven responses to the consultation supported the company’s planning application.
The UK’s first formal assessment of carbon emissions from burning onshore oil has been criticised as “flawed”, “misleading” and “unlawful”.
The operator of unlawful oil production at Horse Hill in Surrey has not given a date when equipment will be removed from the site. The company has also not acknowledged a formal request for more information on its operation.
Plans to explore for gas near a village between Scarborough and Bridlington will not need a detailed environmental assessment, council officials have decided.
Views are invited on plans for commercial oil and gas production and new drilling at Rathlin Energy’s remote well site at West Newton-A in East Yorkshire.
Preparation for fracking at a site in a North Yorkshire village saw nitrogen oxides pollution peak to levels comparable with the morning rush hour in North Kensington, research has revealed.
Helen Savage responds to government support for fracking from the West Sussex village of Balcombe, scene of anti-fracking protests in summer 2013.
More than one thousand people have signed a petition against oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
The oil and gas industry must improve reporting of climate change impacts or risk losing its social licence, the regulator said today.
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