People living near Cuadrilla’s mothballed fracking site in Lancashire say they are disappointed about the lack of progress on plugging and abandoning the wells and returning the land to farming.
A progress report on decommissioning Cuadrilla’s fracking site in Lancashire is late, for the second time.
The latest legal challenge against testing an exploratory oil well at Balcombe in West Sussex will be heard in January 2025.
The pro-fracking former energy secretary, Andrea Leadsom, has said she will not fight the general election.
The use of anti-protest injunctions in the UK is being challenged by Friends of the Earth at the European Court of Human Rights.
The only company to frack horizontal shale gas wells onshore in the UK has cut the value of its exploration assets.
A local campaign group is celebrating the formal end to shale gas operations near an important nature reserve in the Nottinghamshire village of Misson.
Cuadrilla’s Australian owner spent more than £0.75m in six months in the UK in 2023, more than double the amount in the previous year. But the company has no plans for future “substantive expenditure” on UK shale gas.
A shale gas well in Nottinghamshire that has been mothballed for more than four years has been decommissioned, officials have confirmed.
Cuadrilla’s plan to decommission its fracked wells in Lancashire is already behind schedule.
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