Burniston drilling meeting – key points and reaction
More than 100 people braved torrential rain to attend an information meeting and exhibition about plans for gas exploration at Burniston in North Yorkshire.
More than 100 people braved torrential rain to attend an information meeting and exhibition about plans for gas exploration at Burniston in North Yorkshire.
Planners at North Lincolnshire Council have granted planning permission for more drilling and small-scale fracking in an expansion of the Wressle oil site near Scunthorpe.
Lincolnshire is seeking views on a new blueprint for oil and gas planning for the next 15 years.
The legal challenge against oil production and more drilling at Biscathorpe in the Lincolnshire Wolds will be go ahead in June.
Plans to extend an oil site and build a new pipeline should be refused unless more information is provided because it could affect a prehistoric cemetery, historians have warned.
The UK’s newest onshore oil production site has confirmed it is planning two new wells.
Restoration of Nottinghamshire’s only shale gas site is due to begin later this month.
Work on a new well at the West Newton-B oil and gas site in East Yorkshire has been postponed again.
Proposals by IGas for a new hydrocarbon site in Lincolnshire have been backed by county council planners, despite local opposition and official concerns about road safety.
Most people living near two proposed shale gas sites did not trust information from fracking companies, research has shown.