A retired geologist has warned North Yorkshire councillors they risk embarrassment or even legal action over the handling of a planning application for gas drilling at Burniston near Scarborough.
David Eddy, chair of Foxholes and Butterwick Parish Council, in North Yorkshire, reports on the challenges facing local communities dealing with oil and gas developments.
The Environment Agency has extended the consultation period at a second site where lower-volume fracking is planned in Yorkshire.
The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has been urged to widen the moratorium on fracking in England to include all forms of the process.
An official online petition is calling on the government to ban “small-scale fracking” for onshore oil and gas.
New government guidance on assessing carbon emissions from oil and gas production has been welcomed by environmental campaigners.
The MP for the North Yorkshire village of Burniston, where there are plans for a form of fracking, has promised to question the government on its commitment to ban the process.
A gas company that criticised campaigners for using the word ‘fracking’ for a well operation in North Yorkshire used the same term for the same process in correspondence with officials.
Planning permission for expansion at the UK’s second largest onshore oil producer has been formally rescinded in another casualty of the landmark Supreme Court judgement on climate emissions.
All onshore petroleum operations, including fracking, are to be banned in Northern Ireland and no new licences will be granted from now on, it was announced today.
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