Proposals to explore for gas near the edge of the North York Moors would not cause “significant harm” to the national park, the park’s authority agreed this morning.
The proposal by Europa to explore for gas near the North York Moors National Park “sits uncomfortably” with local climate change commitments, officials have said.
Wells at two key sites in the UK’s failed shale gas revolution have been abandoned.
The call for comments on plans to drill for gas and carry out a form of fracking near Scarborough has been extended.
A gas company that criticised campaigners for using the word ‘fracking’ for a well operation in North Yorkshire used the same term for the same process in correspondence with officials.
Cuadrilla had until Sunday 8 June 2025 to restore its former Lancashire fracking site at Preston New Road to farmland. But so far, the work has not started.
The flare stack at Cuadrilla’s former fracking site near Blackpool was removed this lunchtime.
Ambitious claims about potential production from a shale gas discovery in Lincolnshire have been described as “so misleading as to be ridiculous”.
Anti-fracking campaigners were outside council headquarters in North Yorkshire again today – nearly nine years after councillors approved plans for hydraulic fracturing in Ryedale.
The Texan company behind news of a giant gasfield in Lincolnshire confirmed today it is targeting shale.
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