No new onshore oil and gas licences will be issued in England, the government announced today. The news followed a speech to the Labour conference in which the energy secretary confirmed his commitment to ban fracking.
The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has been urged to widen the moratorium on fracking in England to include all forms of the process.
An official online petition is calling on the government to ban “small-scale fracking” for onshore oil and gas.
The government has defended plans to end the issuing of new onshore oil and gas licences in England.
Egdon Resources has discovered a “giant gasfield” in Lincolnshire, it was reported last night.
Most of the official exploration licences issued nearly a decade ago in England’s bid to go “all out for shale” no longer exist.
A book of photographs documenting landscapes in UK shale gas regions is due to be published in the autumn.
More than twice as many people oppose fracking than support it, according to a government survey published today.
The Conservatives have committed in their election manifesto to keeping the moratorium on fracking in England.
Councils will be able to recover the full cost of major planning applications, if they meet deadlines, the chancellor’s autumn statement revealed today.
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