Fracking companies should fund surveys of homes near shale gas sites – call for law change
The government is being urged to change the law to protect people whose property is damaged by fracking.
Spending watchdog investigates costs of fracking
The potential cost to the public of decommissioning fracking sites is to be investigated by the government’s spending watchdog.
West Newton: Eviction costs and noise complaint
Eviction of monitoring camps outside an oil and gas site in East Yorkshire cost the county council a total of £33,983.34.
Ministers to pay costs of policing North Yorks fracking protests
The government is to pay almost all the extra costs of policing protests outside Third Energy’s fracking site at Kirby Misperton in North Yorkshire.
Counting the cost of oil plans at Leith Hill
DrillOrDrop investigates the costs of a long-running planning battle over Surrey oil drilling plans which ended suddenly last week.
Government rejects national setback distances for fracking sites
Fracking Week in Parliament. The government has said it has no plans to establish a minimum distance between homes and shale gas sites across the country.
New figures show benefits and costs to Lancashire from shale exploration
Cuadrilla announced today that the Preston New Road shale gas project had generated total spending of £8.6m in Lancashire economy since the start of 2016. Meanwhile, figures from Lancashire Constabulary show that total costs for policing outside the well site at Preston New Road reached almost £7m by […]
Home Office gives Lancashire 20% of costs of policing anti-fracking protests
Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner has called on the Government to reconsider its decision to contribute only 20% of the cost so far in policing anti-fracking protests outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site near Blackpool.
Balcombe well test likely to come before Brockham, says Angus Energy
Angus Energy has said it expects to test its newly-acquired well at Balcombe in West Sussex, before turning to Brockham in Surrey.
New data on the costs and benefits of shale gas exploration in Lancashire
The shale gas company, Cuadrilla, announced today it had spent a total of £6.8m in the Lancashire economy in the past two years. But new figures show the cost of policing outside the company’s Preston New Road site near Blackpool reached almost £6m for a single year.
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