Environmental campaigners and community groups have welcomed this morning’s decision by Lancashire County Council to refuse more time for restoration of a controversial fracking site.
Officials in Lancashire are recommending refusal of a bid to extend the life of the mothballed Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool.
Controversial proposals by Egdon Resources to produce oil in the Lincolnshire Wolds are due to be decided by a full planning inquiry.
Officials have supported plans for more drilling and oil production at a mothballed site in rural Dorset.
The Environment Agency has withdrawn is objection to controversial plans to explore for gas, including lower volume fracking, in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston.
The Reform-led Scarborough Town Council has voted unanimously against plans for lower volume fracking in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston.
The decision on plans to produce oil in the Lincolnshire Wolds has been delayed again.
Cuadrilla’s former fracking site in Lancashire passed a milestone event this morning.
The proposal by Europa to explore for gas near the North York Moors National Park “sits uncomfortably” with local climate change commitments, officials have said.
Residents in Balcombe in West Sussex have lost a legal challenge against testing an oil well in their village.
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