As the new prime minister takes office, one of the biggest immediate challenges will be the UK’s energy crisis, with soaring bills and the threat of rationing this winter. Some see onshore shale gas as part of the solution. But given shale’s record over the past decade, can […]
DrillOrDrop’s review of the latest UK onshore oil data for May 2022: daily production at 30+ year low
IGas has submitted plans for battery storage facilities at its Welton Gathering Centre in Lincolnshire.
DrillOrDrop has worked with local people to factcheck web articles by The Sun and LBC about IGas’s Misson Springs shale gas site in Nottinghamshire.
DrillOrDrop’s review of the latest UK onshore oil data for March 2022: daily production down below 14,000 barrels
People are being invited to comment on the environmental impact of plans by IGas to produce unabated hydrogen at its gas site at Albury in Surrey.
An energy minister has rejected industry suggestions that it can produce fracked gas within 18 months.
The government has now missed its own deadline by two years for decisions on shale gas schemes in south Yorkshire and Cheshire.
IGas has estimated it could produce fracked gas for three million homes within 12-18 months if the fracking moratorium was lifted.
The business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, has ordered a scientific review of the impact of fracking.
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