May 2017 drilling headlines
DrillOrDrop’s May 2017 digest of news about fracking, shale and onshore oil and gas updated daily. For headlines from previous months, click here
What the judge said about Lancashire campaigners’ fracking challenges
In a brief court hearing at 9.30 this morning, the High Court judge Sir Ian Dove dismissed two legal challenges to the ministerial approval of Cuadrilla’s plans for fracking at a site in Lancashire.
Fracking company seeks relaxation of planning conditions for restoration at Becconsall
Cuadrilla is seeking to raise the height of the rig and the volume of noise it can make at a Lancashire shale gas site next to an internationally-important bird reserve.
Final chance for West Sussex to toughen rules on acid fracking
West Sussex has a last chance next month to strengthen controls on the use of acid in oil and gas operations.
Breaking: Group starts legal challenge over Lancashire fracking go-ahead
A community group has begun a legal challenge to the Government’s decision to grant planning permission for fracking at a site in Lancashire.
What Notts planners say about IGas shale scheme at Misson?
Planners have recommended approval of the first shale gas exploration plans in Nottinghamshire.
Go-ahead recommended for gas production in Surrey protected landscape against planning policy
Councillors are being recommended to approve plans to produce gas at a site in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, despite predicted harm to the landscape and in breach of several planning policies.
West Sussex oil and gas plan fails on climate change say campaigners
Environmental campaigners in West Sussex are calling for changes to a draft policy for future oil and gas development because they say it fails to include measures to tackle climate change.
Key issues for Third Energy fracking decision
On Friday (20 May) councillors in North Yorkshire will meet to decide whether to approve what could be the UK’s first fracked shale gas well for more than five years.
MPs call for decarbonisation of electricity and heating
A committee of MPs has suggested the government policy of increased use of gas fired power stations will make it hard for the UK to meet carbon reduction targets by 2030.
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