Lower-volume fracking in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston is the wrong project, at the wrong time, in the wrong location, local representatives said today in response to news that a drilling company is to appeal against the rejection of its plans.
The Environment Agency has refused to extend its public consultation on plans for gas drilling and fracking at Burniston in North Yorkshire.
Council officers have allowed the access track to remain to the former Broadford Bridge oil exploration site in West Sussex.
The fracking company Cuadrilla has secured the very time extension to restore its Lancashire shale gas site that councillors refused nine months ago.
Fencing at Cuadrilla’s controversial former fracking site in Lancashire is being dismantled and removed.
Gas drilling in a small village in the Yorkshire Wolds would cause “unacceptable harm”, a leading campaign organisation has said.
Two Cuadrilla subsidiaries have formally gone out of business.
An oil well in the Lincolnshire Wolds is to be decommissioned in the coming weeks.
The operator of the Balcombe oil site in West Sussex has said it will submit a new planning application after permission lapsed last week.
Planning consent at the controversial Balcombe oil site in West Sussex has lapsed, officials confirmed today.
