A small group of campaigners is seeking to challenge the decision by a planning inspector to allow long-term oil production in one of the country’s most beautiful areas.
Almost a fifth of UK onshore production fields have extracted no oil or gas in the past five years, according to analysis by DrillOrDrop.
Two climate protesters glued themselves this morning to the delivery entrance of a Cambridge university research centre, run by the world’s largest oilfield services group, SLB, formerly known as Schlumberger.
The Environment Agency has given formal consent for oil and gas production at an expanded West Newton-A well site in East Yorkshire.
Climate campaigners staged a protest at one of the UK’s biggest music festivals, against plans to revive oil production on the estate where the event is held.
The government’s new environmental watchdog has been on the opposite side of the legal argument from a minister in its first court case.
A landmark legal challenge that will shape future decisions on fossil fuel developments comes to the UK’s highest court next week.
Views are invited on plans for commercial oil and gas production and new drilling at Rathlin Energy’s remote well site at West Newton-A in East Yorkshire.
Net zero could create hundreds of thousands of new green jobs – but stronger government support is needed, a briefing said today.
A landmark legal case on the climate impacts of onshore oil production, to be heard by the Supreme Court in June, could threaten plans for a controversial new coal mine in Cumbria – as well as other fossil fuel developments.
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