Energy bill “fails to ban fracking”
The government said today it would deliver its promise to ban fracking by outlawing the issuing of new onshore oil and gas exploration licences.
Updated: Europa to appeal against Burniston fracking refusal
Europa Oil & Gas has given notice that it will appeal against the rejection of its plans for gas drilling and lower-volume fracking at Burniston in North Yorkshire.
Breaking: Oil companies drop Biscathorpe appeal
Partners seeking to produce oil in the protected Lincolnshire Wolds have abandoned their challenge to the refusal of planning permission, a formal statement announced this morning.
Call for action on delay to restoration of mothballed oil site
Campaigners are urging a council to insist on the speedy restoration of a suspended oil site in West Sussex where decommissioning deadlines have been missed.
Updated: UKOG abandons Turkish well test and announces new fundraising plans for Loxley
UKOG shares dropped more than a third today on news that the company had abandoned testing the Pinarova-1 well in Turkey. The company said it was “disappointed” that the well had not met its expectations.
Shock and anger at Biscathorpe oil production decision
Campaigners and councillors have said they are shocked that a government-appointed inspector has overturned the refusal of planning permission for long-term oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB).
Balcombe oil test challenge refused
Balcombe residents have failed in their legal challenge against testing at the oil site in their village.
Fracking industry warns “great economic, environmental and geopolitical cost” from renewed moratorium
The shale gas lobbying organisation has accused the government of dealing in “ideology and fiction” by reinstating the moratorium on fracking.
Rathlin’s 25-year oil drilling plans “not likely to have significant effects on the environment”, says minister
Plans by Rathlin Energy for long-term oil production at a site in East Yorkshire do not need a detailed environmental study, a government minister has ruled.
Updated: Council “extremely disappointed over Brockham well drilled without permission”
Surrey County Council is meeting the oil and gas company, Angus Energy, this week to discuss a side-track well at Brockham, amid allegations that it was drilled without planning permission.
