North Yorkshire prepares for crucial battle that could shape fracking policy across England
Future planning policy for fracking in England could be set in the coming months in the rolling hills and copses of North Yorkshire.
Fracking Week in Parliament: 16-20 January 2017
In this Fracking Week in Parliament: Caroline Spelman on what the Church of England said about fracking Claudia Beamish asks why a fracking ban is not in Scotland’s draft climate change bill
What’s happening this week? 21-27 November 2016
This week’s diary features a legal challenge in the High Court in London by Frack Free Ryedale and Friends of the Earth against the approval of planning permission to frack at Kirby Misperton in North Yorkshire. Also five community meetings, two meet-the-regulator events, a fundraiser, a consultation deadline […]
Local oil and gas policy round-up: Barnsley, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire
Barnsley anti-fracking campaigners call for changes to minerals plan An anti-fracking group has called on Barnsley to take an impartial approach to shale gas in its planning policy and to host a public meeting on unconventional oil and gas.
West Sussex oil and gas plan fails on climate change say campaigners
Environmental campaigners in West Sussex are calling for changes to a draft policy for future oil and gas development because they say it fails to include measures to tackle climate change.
West Sussex seeks to exclude oil and gas drilling from protected landscapes
A new strategy in West Sussex seeks to prevent almost all oil and gas development in the South Downs National Park and the county’s two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Government allows fracking under – but not in – National Parks
As MP prepare to leave parliament for the summer, the government has announced it is to ban fracking from the surface of National Parks and some other protected areas. But under new rules operators will be allowed to frack underneath these areas from outside their boundaries. Several environmental […]
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