Measures to protect the environment during proposed work at the Balcombe oil site in West Sussex are “inadequate, incomplete and misleading”, villagers have complained.
The new Conservative MP for the Rother Valley in south Yorkshire is calling on the government to extend its moratorium on fracking to include drilling for shale gas.
Just one in ten people support fracking in the UK, according to the latest results in a quarterly government survey.
Plans to produce oil for 25 years near the village of Puddletown in Dorset have prompted local objections and national concerns.
DrillOrDrop’s summary of the election manifesto commitments on fracking and onshore oil and gas. We’ll update this post with each new manifesto.
Rathlin Energy has suspended the extended well test at its West Newton well site in East Yorkshire – just a week after the start.
Environmental campaigners have called on the new Conservative leader, Boris Johnson, to ban fracking.
