About 1,400 formal objections have been submitted in a public consultation on the Europa Oil & Gas exploration plans near the North York Moors national park. At the time of writing, just seven responses to the consultation supported the company’s planning application.
The call for comments on plans to drill for gas and carry out a form of fracking near Scarborough has been extended.
Residents in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston have a chance to give their views later this month on plans to explore for gas on the edge of the national park and heritage coast.
Key equipment was installed today to decommission Cuadrilla’s fracked shale gas wells and work is expected to start imminently.
The operator of unlawful oil production at Horse Hill in Surrey has not given a date when equipment will be removed from the site. The company has also not acknowledged a formal request for more information on its operation.
The fracking company, Cuadrilla, has been given just over four weeks to start plugging the shale gas wells at its mothballed Preston New Road site in Lancashire.
The UK’s most controversial shale gas site has failed to meet the deadline to plug two fracked wells – putting it in breach of planning consent.
The UK’s second largest onshore oil producer is seeking permission to refine gas and carry out small-scale fracking.
The lawyer representing campaigners behind a landmark judgement at the Supreme Court this year has won a major award.
Planning permission for expansion at the UK’s second largest onshore oil producer has been formally rescinded in another casualty of the landmark Supreme Court judgement on climate emissions.
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