Conservative-controlled East Yorkshire council has voted overwhelmingly against fracking locally in one of the first formal reactions to the government’s lifting of the moratorium in England.
Councillors in East Yorkshire are to debate opposing fracking in the county.
Any commercial gas production at West Newton in East Yorkshire is about four years away, companies behind the plans revealed this morning.
Rathlin Energy is apparently no longer targeting oil at its two sites at West Newton in East Yorkshire.
Graham Stuart, the MP representing the area of East Yorkshire around Rathlin Energy’s West Newton oil site, is the new climate minister.
The East Yorkshire based oil and gas firm, Rathlin Energy, has said climate change will not affect its future operations.
The communities’ secretary is still considering an application for long-term oil production at West Newton-A in East Yorkshire.
The first of eight new horizontal wells to exploit the West Newton gasfield in East Yorkshire could be drilled within months, it was revealed today.
A local Conservative councillor has urged the levelling up secretary, Michael Gove, to intervene in plans by Rathlin Energy for long-term oil production and more drilling at a site in East Yorkshire.
Councillors have overwhelmingly backed a time extension at Rathlin Energy’s West Newton-B exploration site in East Yorkshire.
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