1,000-mile cycle ride to fight Surrey oil production
Two cyclists have begun a 1,000 mile ride to Spain in a campaign to stop oil extraction at Horse Hill in Surrey.
July 2021 headlines
Keep up with July 2021’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas.
Latest UK onshore oil production data: March 2021
Key figures Barrels per day (bopd): 14,194(February 2021 14,491 bopd, January 2021 14,794 bopd)
Rathlin posts notice of application for West Newton oil production
Rathlin Energy has given formal notice that it intends to apply for planning permission for expansion and long-term oil production at one of its sites in East Yorkshire.
CCC says planning must deliver net zero – but no support for Horse Hill challenge
The government’s climate adviser has said planning policies must deliver carbon-reduction goals – but it declined to back a landmark legal challenge to how UK onshore oil production is decided.
Radioactive waste disposal allowed to continue at oil site in national park
An oil company has won consent to continue the disposal of liquid radioactive waste in the South Downs National Park.
Date set for appeal hearing over Surrey oil production
The Court of Appeal has scheduled a date for a legal challenge about the climate impact of oil production at the Horse Hill well site in Surrey.
Appeal over Balcombe well test not “foremost in our minds” – Angus Energy
Angus Energy is “weighing up the consequences” of appealing against refusal of a well test at its Balcombe oil site. But the decision was not “foremost” in its mind, it said.
Updated: Planners seek more details on national importance of Egdon’s Biscathorpe oil plans
Planners in Lincolnshire have said an oil company has failed to prove that its proposals for drilling and production in a protected landscape are in the national interest.
Updated: Climate activists blockade BP Hamble oil terminal
BP’s Hamble oil terminal near Southampton has been blocked by Extinction Rebellion climate campaigners
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