N Yorks Tories block opposition motion on fracking
A proposal to condemn fracking as “inappropriate” in North Yorkshire failed this afternoon.
A proposal to condemn fracking as “inappropriate” in North Yorkshire failed this afternoon.
Cuadrilla should be refused more time to restore its fracking site in Lancashire, the local Conservative MP has told the county council.
The reviewer of the government’s net zero strategy said he nearly left the Conservatives following the chaotic vote on fracking last year.
The prime minister has created a new department for energy security and net zero.
Ministers have refused a request to overturn planning permission for expansion and long-term production at a Rathlin Energy oil and gas site in East Yorkshire.
Three years ago today, the government formally confirmed a moratorium on fracking in England.
The new prime minister has said he will deliver on the promises in the 2019 Conservative election manifesto.
A Labour bid to introduce legislation to ban fracking was defeated this evening.
Conservative-controlled East Yorkshire council has voted overwhelmingly against fracking locally in one of the first formal reactions to the government’s lifting of the moratorium in England.
Councillors in East Yorkshire are to debate opposing fracking in the county.