About 1,400 formal objections have been submitted in a public consultation on the Europa Oil & Gas exploration plans near the North York Moors national park. At the time of writing, just seven responses to the consultation supported the company’s planning application.
The call for comments on plans to drill for gas and carry out a form of fracking near Scarborough has been extended.
Another council has voted unanimously against plans to drill for gas at Burniston in North Yorkshire.
Parish councillors voted by 8 to nil to object to plans for gas exploration and small-scale hydraulic fracturing in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston. About 100 people attending an extraordinary meeting last night also unanimously opposed the scheme in a show-of-hands.
Residents in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston have a chance to give their views later this month on plans to explore for gas on the edge of the national park and heritage coast.
The UK’s first formal assessment of carbon emissions from burning onshore oil has been criticised as “flawed”, “misleading” and “unlawful”.
The government has defended plans to end the issuing of new onshore oil and gas licences in England.
The decision over plans to extract oil in the Lincolnshire Wolds looks likely to be delayed.
Star Energy is seeking to export electricity generated at a site in the South Downs National Park.
The campaigner behind last year’s Supreme Court judgement on climate emissions has called for strict new rules that would prevent most future oil and gas extraction.
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