DrillOrDrop has compiled reaction to the government’s statement on a immediate moratorium on fracking. We have comments from community groups, campaigners, academics, politicians and the shale gas industry. Full report on the government statement
It started with a dead puppy. This prompted nurse and single mother Stacey Haney to investigate whether her family was being poisoned by a shale gas site near her home in rural Pennsylvania.
Residents in the Surrey village of Dunsfold have described plans for a proposed oil and gas site as “confused and muddled”.
IGas has announced a new drilling site in the Weald in southern England with plans for up to two exploration and appraisal wells.
Plastic streamers, used to deter birds from an Ineos shale gas site in south Yorkshire, have turned up as rubbish in nearby woods and hedgerows.
Rotherham council will not fight Ineos shale gas plans at Woodsetts on highway safety.
Environmental campaigners are counting on protesters and senior judges to protect hard-fought rights which they say are under threat from powerful and wealthy onshore oil and gas companies.
