August 2022 headlines
Keep up to date with August 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.
Climate activists trespass in Aberdeen harbour over threat to local park
More than 100 climate campaigners have taken part in a mass trespass at Aberdeen’s Torry harbour in opposition to plans by the fossil fuel industry to build on a park.
Climate activists condemn surging oil and gas profits
Record profit announcements by Shell and Centrica show the energy system is broken, environmental campaigners said today.
Council clears way for new application at Cuadrilla’s fracking site – but Horse Hill faces environmental hurdle
Cuadrilla will not need to submit a detailed environmental statement when it applies to extend the life of its mothballed fracking site at Preston New Road, near Blackpool.
Shell’s Jackdaw gasfield and Ineos plastics project face legal challenges
Campaign organisations are taking separate legal actions over plans for a new gasfield and Ineos’s plastics project.
Good Law Project backs community challenge to government over gas drilling near Surrey village
The Good Law Project announced this morning it was supporting the community group, Protect Dunsfold, in its bid to challenge a government decision to allow exploratory drilling for gas on the edge of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
UKOG threatens libel action against councillor
The company behind plans to explore for gas near a Surrey village has threatened to sue a senior local councillor for libel.
Councillors to seek legal challenge to Dunsfold gas drilling
A council which opposed drilling for gas near a Surrey village has taken the first step to fight ministerial approval of the scheme.
Tories, fracking and local opinion
The Conservative leadership challenger, Liz Truss, has suggested that the moratorium on fracking in England should be lifted and decisions left to local people.
Council to vote on legal challenge to UKOG gas drilling
Council leaders are due to decide next week whether to take court action against gas drilling near a village in Surrey.
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