Photo post: Equipment leaves Cuadrilla’s fracking site
Lorries have been taking equipment off Cuadrilla’s fracking site near Blackpool over the past two days.
No guarantor for Third Energy’s fracking and drilling plans
The government has confirmed that no guarantor is required to underwrite Third Energy’s commitments to frack one well a year in Ryedale, North Yorkshire, until 2022.
International tribunal recommends worldwide ban on fracking
A panel of judges at an internationally-recognised tribunal has urged the United Nations to ban fracking.
Cuadrilla calls for new approach to fracking earthquake rules
Cuadrilla called today for changes to the regulations on seismicity induced by fracking to take account of ground vibration.
IGas sets out vision for back-to-back shale gas development
Exploratory drilling, fracking and production could be underway at the same time across multiple wells on several pads in a shale gas field, a company suggested today.
“Fracking will struggle if it doesn’t solve landowner liability for clean-up”
The shale gas industry was warned today it must tackle the problem of who pays for decommissioning if the operator goes out of business.
Breaking: Anti-fracking campaigners win appeal against Ineos protest injunction
Anti-fracking campaigns have won a legal challenge to an injunction granted to the shale gas company, Ineos Upstream.
Fracking earthquake rules should be extended to other onshore oil and gas operations, MPs told
The risk of earthquakes from well operations such as acidisation, water reinjection and pressure release should be controlled in the same way as fracking, a parliamentary meeting heard today.
April 2019 headlines
This month could see the start of horizontal drilling at the IGas site at Misson in north Nottinghamshire and the spudding of Rathlin Energy’s second well at West Newton. The Court of Appeal is due to hand down its ruling on a challenge to the Ineos injunction and […]
Events diary – April 2019 and beyond
Events in April 2019 and beyond about UK fracking, onshore oil and gas and campaigning
