March 2022 headlines
Keep up to date with March 2022’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas.
Cuadrilla spent $0.9m in six months on fracking strategies and licence admin
The shale gas company, Cuadrilla, spent $900,000 in six months last year mostly on strategies to lift the fracking moratorium and administer its UK licences, it emerged today.
CCC backs limits on UK oil and gas production and a presumption against future exploration
The UK’s official advisor on climate change has said it would support a government presumption against future oil and gas exploration.
Government stands firm on fracking moratorium
The government has restated its support for the moratorium on fracking in England.
Frack site flare disappears from view
One of the flare stacks at Cuadrilla’s Lancashire fracking site was no longer visible this morning.
Shale supporters challenged over fracking facts
The accuracy of facts supporting calls to lift England’s fracking moratorium have been contested.
Councillors back local fracking controls for North Yorkshire
A council which backed fracking nearly six years ago has adopted new planning rules that could restrict proposals for the controversial process.
Mass support for windfall tax on oil and gas companies
More than three-quarters of people want a windfall tax on fossil fuel companies, according to a national survey published today.
Residents welcome plugging of Cuadrilla’s “doomed” fracked wells
Opponents of fracking in Lancashire have welcomed Cuadrilla’s announcement that it is to plug and abandon shale gas wells near Blackpool.
Cuadrilla to plug Lancashire fracked wells
The fracking company, Cuadrilla, has announced it is to plug and abandon its two shale gas wells at Preston New Road site near Blackpool.
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