Formal complaint against Environment Agency on Burniston permit
A formal complaint has been made against the Environment Agency (EA) over the way it has handled plans for gas drilling and lower-volume fracking at Burniston in North Yorkshire.
Updated: “Errors, uncertainty and missing information” – Burniston draft permit decision
Gas drilling and lower-volume fracking near the North York Moors National Park should not go-ahead because of flaws in the official environmental assessment, a consultation has revealed.
Questions over technical competence of Horse Hill climate assessment
The assessment of the climate impact of expansion at the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey contains “multiple errors and misleading and irrelevant information”, campaigners said today.
Planners accused of “misleading” report on Burniston fracking gas plan
Council officials have been accused of giving misleading advice on controversial plans for gas drilling and lower-volume fracking at Burniston, near Scarborough.
Venting data revised down at UK onshore oil site
The industry regulator has revised down recent monthly volumes for methane vented at the Kimmeridge oil well in Dorset to almost nothing.
Europa’s Leith Hill oil drilling plans contain “significant errors, inconsistencies and omissions” – review
An independent review has made “major criticisms” of Europa’s application for an environmental permit for oil drilling plans near Leith Hill in Surrey.
