Government refuses requests to release recommendations on delayed shale gas appeals
A government department has refused to release reports by planning inspectors on two public inquiries into shale gas schemes in England.
Broadford Bridge planning decision delayed again
A bid by UK Oil & Gas plc to extend the life of its site at Broadford Bridge in West Sussex will now not be decided until at least July.
IGas demands answers on Ellesmere Port decision
Updated. IGas is demanding to know when the government will announce its decision on shale gas plans in Cheshire.
“Fracking moratorium more likely to be reversed by politics than science”
Updated 24 April 2020 The investment bank, VSA Capital, has hinted that politics, rather than science, could overturn the moratorium on onshore fracking in England.
Guest post: Cheshire campaigners win “major and decisive fracking battle”
With the government announcement last week to postpone its decision on plans at IGas’s Ellesmere Port site in Cheshire, a member of Frack Free Upton reflects on, and celebrates, the local campaign against the onshore gas industry.
Breaking: Decision on Ineos shale gas plans at Woodsetts delayed
The government has delayed the result of the planning appeal over Ineos shale gas plans in the south Yorkshire village of Woodsetts.
Oil company seeks to block campaigners from injunction challenge
Lawyers for UK Oil & Gas said five women campaigners should be barred from trying to quash an injunction against protests at its sites in Surrey and Sussex.
April 2020 diary
DrillOrDrop’s listing of events about UK onshore oil and gas and campaigns.
No decision on UKOG’s Isle of Wight drilling plans during coronavirus outbreak
Frack Free Isle of Wight has welcomed news that the island’s council has halted all planning decisions during the covid-19 outbreak.
Planners back two more years at UKOG’s Broadford Bridge site
An oil company should be given another two years to decide whether its site in West Sussex is viable, planners recommended today.
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