Nottinghamshire – DRILL OR DROP?

Star Energy to quit shale gas licences

One of the biggest potential players in UK onshore fracking has said it is giving up its shale gas licences.

Shale gas opponents were celebrating victory today in a 10-year David and Goliath battle in Nottinghamshire.

A shale gas well in Nottinghamshire that has been mothballed for more than four years has been decommissioned, officials have confirmed.

Equipment to plug and abandon the mothballed well at a shale gas site in north Nottinghamshire was delivered this morning.

One of the UK’s leading would-be fracking companies appears to be turning away from shale gas.

A proposal to condemn fracking as “inappropriate” in North Yorkshire failed this afternoon.

DrillOrDrop’s checklist of what to look out for in 2023 on UK onshore oil and gas

Officials have taken the first steps to force IGas to restore its shale gas site at Misson Springs in Nottinghamshire.

Conservative-controlled Nottinghamshire County Council is looking at options to ensure IGas restores the Springs Road shale gas site at Misson.

DrillOrDrop has worked with local people to factcheck web articles by The Sun and LBC about IGas’s Misson Springs shale gas site in Nottinghamshire.