Government refuses to block lower-volume fracking
The Burnham government has confirmed it will not ban lower-volume fracking.
The Burnham government has confirmed it will not ban lower-volume fracking.
Campaigners gathered outside the Horndean B oil site in Hampshire yesterday (6 September 2026) to launch a fundraiser for a legal challenge over methane pollution from onshore oil and gas sites in the UK.
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.
A Conservative-led council has urged the UK government to deliver its promise to ban fracking.
Legal papers have been submitted to the High Court in a legal challenge against plans for lower-volume fracking at an oil and gas site in East Yorkshire.
The campaign group behind a landmark legal judgement on carbon emissions has criticised official advice to government on the climate impact of onshore oil and gas.
The founder and director of a company behind new plans to use UK onshore gas for bitcoin mining, has resigned.
North Yorkshire councillors are free to issue a formal refusal of plans by Europa Oil & Gas for drilling for gas and lower-volume fracking at Burniston, near Scarborough.
Fracking should be defined by what it does and what it is for – not by how much fluid it uses, the government has been advised.
Revenue and gas production at Angus Energy fell in 2025 compared with the year before.