Industry calls for lifting of Scottish fracking moratorium
The industry organisation, UK Onshore Oil and Gas, has urged the Scottish government to lift the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.
Drilling diary – May 2017
100 events in May 2017 about UK fracking and onshore oil and gas. Including tours of the film The Bentley Effect and the satire Fracked! Plus deadlines, information events and meetings. Please let us know here if you’d like us to add your events or if any details are wrong. This page will be […]
Drilling Diary – April 2017
60+ events in April 2017 about UK fracking and onshore oil and gas, including a new tour for the play Fracked!, starring James Bolam and Anne Reid, plus opposition to Barclays’ support for shale gas, continuing Break the Chain actions, meetings, screenings, exhibitions and demonstrations.
Drilling Diary – March 2017
50+ events in March 2017 about UK fracking and onshore oil and gas, including two statutory challenges against the government approval of fracking at Preston New Road, plus the start of a nationwide fortnight of direct action, as well as court hearings, planning decisions, energy debates, information events, meetings […]
Drilling Diary – February 2017
60+ events about UK fracking and onshore oil and gas, including Meet the Regulator drop-ins, debates, presentations, meetings, film screenings, consultation deadlines and protests.
What’s happening this week?23-29 January 2017
In this week’s events listing: continuing protests outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road, plus a Solidarity Saturday event nearby, 10 meetings, two debates and a Meet the Regulator drop-in.
What’s happening this week?9-15 January 2017
Our first weekly events listing for 2017 features scheduled daily roadside protests outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site in Lancashire plus North Lincolnshire Council’s planning committee meeting to decide plans by Egdon for oil and gas production at Wressle.
What’s happening this week? 21-27 November 2016
This week’s diary features a legal challenge in the High Court in London by Frack Free Ryedale and Friends of the Earth against the approval of planning permission to frack at Kirby Misperton in North Yorkshire. Also five community meetings, two meet-the-regulator events, a fundraiser, a consultation deadline […]
N Yorks council failed to assess fracking impact on bats – Friends of the Earth
Councillors deciding Third Energy’s fracking application in North Yorkshire were given “misleading” information about bats flying over the wellsite, Friends of the Earth said today.
Anti-fracking policing has “chilling effect” on freedom and campaigning – new report
Policing of anti-fracking protests is undermining human rights and campaigns against shale gas, according to a new report.
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