Campaigners halt council meeting over “lack of action on fossil fuels”
Surrey County Council interrupted its meeting today when campaigners, calling for a halt to oil drilling, began singing the hit song by The Police Every Breath You Take.
Updated: Lock-on protest at East Yorkshire drilling site continues for 31+ hours
Updated 12.35pm, 10 May 2019 Opponents of oil and gas exploration at Rathlin Energy’s site at West Newton, north of Hull, have been protesting outside the the entrance for more than 30 hours.
Ineos sought to drop fracking and extend deadlines for Barton Moss licence
Britain’s biggest shale gas company told officials it needed more time to carry out agreed work on a drilling licence in Greater Manchester.
Drilling starts on second well at Rathlin Energy’s West Newton site in East Yorkshire
Investors in the West Newton oil and gas site north of Hull have announced that drilling is underway on a second well.
8-hour lock-on protest blocks deliveries to West Newton well site
Deliveries to Rathlin Energy’s East Yorkshire oil and gas exploration site were prevented by protests for a second day this week.
Lorry protest as Rathlin delivers drilling rig to East Yorkshire exploration site
A woman campaigner has climbed on top of drilling equipment on its way to an oil and gas site in East Yorkshire.
IGas sets out vision for back-to-back shale gas development
Exploratory drilling, fracking and production could be underway at the same time across multiple wells on several pads in a shale gas field, a company suggested today.
April 2019 headlines
This month could see the start of horizontal drilling at the IGas site at Misson in north Nottinghamshire and the spudding of Rathlin Energy’s second well at West Newton. The Court of Appeal is due to hand down its ruling on a challenge to the Ineos injunction and […]
Rig contracts for West Newton and Brockham
Drilling a second well at Rathlin Energy’s exploration site in East Yorkshire is due to start next month, an investor in the project announced this morning.
Thousand objections to Horse Hill oil drilling and production plans delay decision
There have been at least a thousand objections to plans by UK Oil & Gas for 20 years of oil production at its site at Horse Hill, Surrey County Council has confirmed.
