Burniston pledges to fight Europa fracking appeal
Councillors in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston said today they would continue to stand by their community in the face of an appeal over gas drilling and lower-volume fracking.
Councillors in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston said today they would continue to stand by their community in the face of an appeal over gas drilling and lower-volume fracking.
Correspondence about permission for gas drilling and fracking in North Yorkshire has prompted concerns about the independence of the environmental regulator.
A formal complaint has been made against the Environment Agency (EA) over the way it has handled plans for gas drilling and lower-volume fracking at Burniston in North Yorkshire.
Gas drilling and lower-volume fracking near the North York Moors National Park should not go-ahead because of flaws in the official environmental assessment, a consultation has revealed.
The assessment of the climate impact of expansion at the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey contains “multiple errors and misleading and irrelevant information”, campaigners said today.
An American-owned hydrocarbon company is backing plans for gas production in the North York Moors National Park, it was revealed today.
A four-year-old company is to outline plans to the public next week on extracting billions of cubic feet of gas in a remote and sensitive part of the North York Moors.
The site at the centre of a landmark legal challenge is seeking to produce more than 600,000 tonnes of oil over the next 20 years, releasing about two million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.
Publication of plans to restart oil production at Horse Hill – suspended after a landmark Supreme Court ruling – is unlikely for several weeks.
The campaigner challenging consent for lower-volume fracking in East Yorkshire has added a new ground to his case.