Fossil fuel campaigner climbed on oil rig lorry as an act of conscience, court told
A campaigner who spent a night on top of a lorry carrying a drilling rig said people who oppose the onshore oil and gas industry must be able to take action.
Protester who climbed on top of a rig lorry tells court the delivery breached planning conditions
Staff transporting a drilling rig between oil exploration sites in Sussex did not know the delivery was in breach of planning conditions, a court heard today.
February 2018 drilling headlines
Keep up with the news with DrillOrDrop’s February 2018 digest of headlines about fracking, shale and onshore oil and gas updated daily.
2017 in pictures – October
October 2017 saw a tea lady kettled and an 85-year-old dragged across a road during anti-fracking protests. Cuadrilla held its first live web tour of Preston New Road and UKOG was pictured with three bottles of oil from its Broadford Bridge site. A rig was delivered and briefly […]
2017 in pictures – September
DrillOrDrop’s year in pictures reaches September 2017, with images from Lancashire, North Yorkshire, West Sussex, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Surrey.
Who drilled where in 2017? Data shows another low for UK onshore oil and gas
The number of onshore oil and gas wells drilled in the UK in 2017 was another 50-year low for the industry.
2017 in pictures – July
DrillOrDrop’s year in pictures reaches July when the group, Reclaim the Power, co-ordinated protests outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site, the company’s offices and premises belonging to contractors.
What to watch in 2018?
DrillOrDrop’s round-up of the likely action on fracking and onshore oil and gas activity in 2018.
2017 in pictures – May
Our review of 2017 reaches May, with protests near Blackpool, Chesterfield, Dorking and Edinburgh, plus the arrival of equipment at a drilling site in West Sussex.
2017 in pictures – April
We’ve now reached April in our photo review of 2017.
