Northern Ireland to ban fracking and onshore oil and gas operations
All onshore petroleum operations, including fracking, are to be banned in Northern Ireland and no new licences will be granted from now on, it was announced today.
All onshore petroleum operations, including fracking, are to be banned in Northern Ireland and no new licences will be granted from now on, it was announced today.
Anti fracking campaigners gathered in a North Yorkshire village today to remember their battle against plans to extract shale gas.
The energy and net zero minister, Graham Stuart, has resigned from the government.
Shale gas opponents were celebrating victory today in a 10-year David and Goliath battle in Nottinghamshire.
Cuadrilla’s Australian owner spent more than £0.75m in six months in the UK in 2023, more than double the amount in the previous year. But the company has no plans for future “substantive expenditure” on UK shale gas.
A shale gas well in Nottinghamshire that has been mothballed for more than four years has been decommissioned, officials have confirmed.
Licences to produce gas in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire have lapsed and the operator, Third Energy, has been acquired by a geothermal group.
Cuadrilla’s plan to decommission its fracked wells in Lancashire is already behind schedule.
DrillOrDrop’s checklist of what to look out for in 2024 on UK onshore oil and gas. You can also catch up with the headlines from 2023 in our review of the year.
A landmark legal challenge to UK onshore oil and gas production was heard by the country’s highest court in 2023.