Traffic arrangements approved for Horse Hill drilling and oil production scheme
Plans for new drilling and long-term oil production at the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey cleared another hurdle today.
Planners back five more years at Cuadrilla’s suspended gas site
Cuadrilla should be allowed to keep its long-standing Elswick gas production site, Lancashire planners said today, even though there’s been no extraction for more than seven years.
Highway officials oppose UKOG’s Isle of Wight drilling plans over safety concerns
Plans by UK Oil & Gas to explore for oil at Arreton on the Isle of Wight should be refused because they may be a hazard to road users, highway officials have recommended.
Reabold increases stake in West Newton licence
Reabold Resources has increased its stake in oil and gas exploration at West Newton in East Yorkshire to more than 50%.
Oil company seeks to add 100+ people to protest injunction
The oil company, UKOG, has listed 116 extra people who it says should be covered by a High Court injunction granted against protests at its drilling sites.
Cuadrilla’s injunction drops bar on key fracking protests
Important sections of the injunction against protests outside Cuadrilla’s fracking site near Blackpool have been abandoned.
Villagers oppose Ineos plans for road closures around Harthill shale gas site
Ineos is proposing six weeks of road closures around its shale gas exploration site near the village of Harthill in south Yorkshire, a new document has revealed.
Picture post: Arrests over “fossil fools” day protest at IGas Misson site
Two anti-fracking campaigners locked themselves together this morning outside the IGas site at Springs Road in north Nottinghamshire.
Lorry protest prompts haulage company to pull out of fracking deliveries
A haulage company has said it will not deliver to fracking companies after a protester climbed onto the cab outside Cuadrilla’s site in Lancashire this morning.
Harthill villagers at High Court in challenge to shale gas permission
A legal challenge to the decision to allow shale gas exploration in the south Yorkshire village of Harthill will be heard at the High Court in this morning.
