Backbench Tories call for relaxed planning laws for fracking
A group of backbench Conservatives has urged the government to ease the planning laws on shale gas schemes.
Major onshore oil production application published
Detailed plans for one of the UK’s largest onshore oil production schemes in recent years have been published.
2021 research update
This post has links to more than 70 studies, briefings and research papers on fracking and the UK onshore oil and gas industry published since 2018.
Climate and wildlife objections to 25-year Dorset oil production plans
Plans to produce oil for 25 years near the village of Puddletown in Dorset have prompted local objections and national concerns.
Anti-fracking group condemns “aggressive eviction” of protest camp
The anti-fracking campaign, Frack Free Lancashire, has criticised yesterday’s eviction of a protest camp near Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site.
Fracking moratorium – reaction
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
Weekend long read: Fractured communities – the seven-year story of what happened when fracking came to town
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.
New application on Dunsfold drilling site creates “impossible challenge” for decision-makers, say villagers
Residents in the Surrey village of Dunsfold have described plans for a proposed oil and gas site as “confused and muddled”.
IGas reveals plans for two new Weald exploration wells
IGas has announced a new drilling site in the Weald in southern England with plans for up to two exploration and appraisal wells.
Villagers to deliver plastic litter from shale gas site to Ineos executive
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.
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