A leading human rights lawyer has warned that police will have “near total discretion” over which protests to ban if the government’s latest restrictions are approved in parliament this week.
Cuadrilla should be given an extra two years to return its controversial fracking site near Blackpool to farmland, council planners have said.
Plans for a well test at the controversial oil site at Balcombe in West Sussex have been approved.
The government’s controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill received Royal Assent today.
The UK onshore oil and gas exploration firm, Hutton Energy UK Limited, was dissolved today.
A tree planting scheme on the site of a former oil site in the South Downs National Park has failed.
Hundreds of tonnes of climate-warming methane is being released into the atmosphere by the UK’s longest continuously producing onshore oil well, despite curbs ordered by the environmental regulator.
Time runs out today for Ineos at a second shale gas site in England.
Planning consent has run out at Ineos’s shale gas site at Harthill in South Yorkshire.
The drilling rig at Rathlin Energy’s West Newton-B site in East Yorkshire will be allowed to stay for another two months, council officials have confirmed.
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