Environmental campaigners and community groups have welcomed this morning’s decision by Lancashire County Council to refuse more time for restoration of a controversial fracking site.
Officials in Lancashire are recommending refusal of a bid to extend the life of the mothballed Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool.
People have the chance to comment on extra information about proposals for long-term oil production and more drilling at the Biscathorpe site in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
A key industry regulator has objected to plans for gas exploration and a form of fracking at Burniston in North Yorkshire.
An oil company has again been given extra time to provide more information about its production plans in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
The decision over plans to extract oil in the Lincolnshire Wolds looks likely to be delayed.
Campaigners are urging a council to insist on the speedy restoration of a suspended oil site in West Sussex where decommissioning deadlines have been missed.
Lincolnshire is seeking views on a new blueprint for oil and gas planning for the next 15 years.
Campaigners against oil and gas operations across southern England gathered in celebration outside a site which was refused planning permission last week.
The deadline to start drilling a gas exploration well in Surrey has been extended again.
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