Loxley drilling deadline extended again
The deadline to start drilling a gas exploration well in Surrey has been extended again.
Updated: UKOG pushes ahead with share plan to raise money for Loxley gas site
UK Oil & Gas has revived a bid to reorganise its share capital, needed to raise money for future projects, including a gas site in Surrey.
Misson shale gas site: restoration due to start in days
Restoration of Nottinghamshire’s only shale gas site is due to begin later this month.
Lords to vote on new protest restrictions as leading lawyer warns police could have “near total discretion”
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.
Updated: Planners back more time to restore Cuadrilla’s Lancashire fracking site
Cuadrilla should be given an extra two years to return its controversial fracking site near Blackpool to farmland, council planners have said.
Balcombe oil test gets go ahead
Plans for a well test at the controversial oil site at Balcombe in West Sussex have been approved.
Police Bill receives royal assent
The government’s controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill received Royal Assent today.
Another UK onshore oil company closes
The UK onshore oil and gas exploration firm, Hutton Energy UK Limited, was dissolved today.
National Park orders firm to replant abandoned oil site after trees died
A tree planting scheme on the site of a former oil site in the South Downs National Park has failed.
Dorset oil site continues to vent hundreds of tonnes of methane
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.
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