Weald oil fields still emitting methane
Oil fields run by Star Energy, in or near the South Downs National Park, have been recorded emitting climate-changing gases for the third time.
Oil fields run by Star Energy, in or near the South Downs National Park, have been recorded emitting climate-changing gases for the third time.
Hundreds of tonnes of climate-warming methane is being released into the atmosphere by the UK’s longest continuously producing onshore oil well, despite curbs ordered by the environmental regulator.
Emissions of methane from fossil fuels have been underestimated by up to 40%, according to a new study.
This month sees a legal challenge at the Court of Appeal against Ineos’s protest injunction. The inquiry closes into IGas plans for Ellesmere Port. Work is underway at Misson and West Newton well sites and plans are due to be submitted for a new site in Surrey.
Data from Cuadrilla’s fracking site near Blackpool has confirmed that the company vented the powerful greenhouse gas, methane, while it was testing the well last month.