Council prepared to enforce restoration of mothballed oil site
Council planners are “in active dialogue” with an oil company over restoring the mothballed exploration site at Broadford Bridge in West Sussex.
Council planners are “in active dialogue” with an oil company over restoring the mothballed exploration site at Broadford Bridge in West Sussex.
A mothballed oil exploration site in West Sussex looks is if must now be restored to farmland.
Falling production at the Horse Hill well in Surrey cut revenue for UK Oil & Gas plc last year.
Campaigners against oil and gas operations across southern England gathered in celebration outside a site which was refused planning permission last week.
The deadline to start drilling a gas exploration well in Surrey has been extended again.
Opponents and supporters of oil drilling in West Sussex have been responding to the refusal of planning permission for another two years at the Broadford Bridge site near Billingshurst.
A West Sussex oil site that has been mothballed since 2018 has been refused more time.
The life of a mothballed exploration site should be extended for another two years to allow an oil company to review data from two other wells in southern England, council planners have recommended.
A company that wants to delay restoration of an oil well to explore using geothermal heat for tea growing has been accused of “clutching at tea leaves”.
A suspended oil site in West Sussex, where no work has been carried out for nearly six years, could supply geothermal heat for farming, including tea production, according to new plans.