Views sought on green energy plans for ex-fracking site
Residents and businesses in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire are being asked what they think about producing geothermal energy from old gas wells, including one once earmarked for fracking.
Residents and businesses in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire are being asked what they think about producing geothermal energy from old gas wells, including one once earmarked for fracking.
The business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, has ordered a scientific review of the impact of fracking.
A crane has been installed today at Cuadrilla’s shale gas site at Preston New Road in Lancashire.
One of the flare stacks at Cuadrilla’s Lancashire fracking site was no longer visible this morning.
A controversial operation to improve oil flow at a site in Lincolnshire has been successful, the operator said this morning.
Opponents of shale gas have welcomed the refusal by Nottinghamshire County Council of an application by IGas for more time at its exploratory drilling site at Misson Springs. More details here.
The licensing of thousands of square miles of English countryside for fracking five years ago has resulted in no wells and no oil or gas.
Final consent had not yet been granted for the stimulation of the Wressle oil well in North Lincolnshire, Union Jack Oil confirmed today. But the company announced that tests on wells at two West Newton sites in East Yorkshire were expected soon.
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The government has been asked what assessment it has made of the decision by Aurora Energy Resources to drop its plans to frack near Formby in Lancashire.