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.
An environmental campaigner has taken the first steps in a legal challenge to the approval of lower-volume fracking in East Yorkshire.
The government has told North Yorkshire Council it is keeping regulation on lower-volume fracking “under review”.
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