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.
Campaign organisations are taking separate legal actions over plans for a new gasfield and Ineos’s plastics project.
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).
The company behind plans to explore for gas near a Surrey village has threatened to sue a senior local councillor for libel.
A council which opposed drilling for gas near a Surrey village has taken the first step to fight ministerial approval of the scheme.
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 leaders are due to decide next week whether to take court action against gas drilling near a village in Surrey.
Climate campaigners staged a noisy protest to demand a council pension fund stops investing in oil and gas companies.
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UK Oil & Gas has revealed that it has given up its licence to explore for hydrocarbons on the Isle of Wight.
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