No new onshore oil and gas licences will be issued in England, the government announced today. The news followed a speech to the Labour conference in which the energy secretary confirmed his commitment to ban fracking.
A block on onshore oil and gas extraction will be debated at the Lib Dem conference tomorrow (Sunday 21 September 2025).
The Reform UK mayor of Greater Lincolnshire has said her party will frack a shale gasfield near Gainsborough if it wins the next general election.
An official online petition is calling on the government to ban “small-scale fracking” for onshore oil and gas.
A group of MPs is campaigning to stop all forms of fracking in England by including them in the moratorium.
The government is to consider all volumes of hydraulic fracturing when it introduces its ban on the process, an energy minister has said.
The MP for the North Yorkshire village of Burniston, where there are plans for a form of fracking, has promised to question the government on its commitment to ban the process.
Egdon Resources has discovered a “giant gasfield” in Lincolnshire, it was reported last night.
DrillOrDrop will be reporting in 2025 on the continuing repercussions of the Finch judgement at the Supreme Court.
The Northern Ireland Executive has agreed to ban exploration and production of all forms of onshore oil and gas.
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