Reabold announces £4.4m payment from Shell
Reabold Resources, a key investor in the West Newton oil and gas field in East Yorkshire, is to receive £4.4m from Shell in the coming days.
Update on Poole Harbour oil leak: compensation, clean-up, produced water and wildlife
Perenco will pay for damage, minister tells peers
October 2022 headlines
Keep up to date with October 2022’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas. Click here for headlines from previous months. Please let us know if we’ve missed something important contact@DrillOrDrop.com Monday 31 October […]
COP26: Campaigners challenge Rishi Sunak on fossil fuels as he announces a “rewiring” of global finance
Climate activists were prevented from attending a speech by Rishi Sunak at the COP26 conference after questioning him on tax breaks for fossil fuels.
Counting the cost of oil plans at Leith Hill
DrillOrDrop investigates the costs of a long-running planning battle over Surrey oil drilling plans which ended suddenly last week.
£1.2m for councils dealing with shale planning applications
Councils dealing with planning applications for shale gas developments were invited today to bid for a share of £1.2m.
“Scandalous” shortage of money for research into public engagement on fracking, conference told
Two leading academics called this afternoon for independent funding for research into community engagement and public attitudes to shale gas.
Horse Hill update: March, money, Greens and policing
Campaigners against oil exploration at Horse Hill near Gatwick are planning a march and mass cycle to the site next week.
‘We don’t have dreams, only nightmares’, anti-fracking campaigner tells climate march
Lancashire anti-fracking campaigner, Tina Louise Rothery, told people on Saturday’s Time to Act climate march in London it was time to get mad and roar.
One month on
A month ago today, on Thursday July 25th, Cuadrilla began moving equipment onto its exploratory drilling site near Balcombe in West Sussex. Anti-fracking campaigners gathered outside the gates and successfully stopped lorries getting into the site. By 11am, campaigners had established a camp on the verge alongside and vowed […]
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