Second council unanimously rejects Burniston gas drilling plans
Another council has voted unanimously against plans to drill for gas at Burniston in North Yorkshire.
March 2024 headlines
Keep up to date with March 2024’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas.
Breaking: Surrey blocks second IGas grey hydrogen scheme
Councillors in Surrey have unanimously rejected plans by IGas to manufacture hydrogen from methane at its site at Albury near Guildford.
WI joins celebrities and campaigners to reject Rosebank oilfield
More than 200 organisations, including the Women’s Institute, have joined celebrities and climate campaigners to oppose plans to develop the Rosebank oilfield off Shetland.
Surrey rejects IGas plans for grey hydrogen production
Councillors in Surrey have refused permission for a scheme to produce hydrogen at a gas site near Bletchingley.
Lincolnshire oil schemes will not help energy crisis, say pilgrims
Plans by Egdon Resources to drill for oil in Lincolnshire will not cut energy bills, opponents said during a 17-mile pilgrimage between two proposed sites.
Fracking is “quite disruptive, may need thousands of wells and can take a long time” – government minister
An energy minister has rejected industry suggestions that it can produce fracked gas within 18 months.
Guest post: Surrey hydrogen plans greenwash continued fossil fuel production
In this guest post, Ann Stewart, of Weald Action Group, argues that IGas plans to produce hydrogen from fossil fuels in Surrey appear to be an attempt to greenwash continued extraction of unabated methane. She says the schemes, if approved, would lock the county into decades of emissions […]
Start date fixed for second Wressle inquiry
The public inquiry into plans for long-term oil production at Egdon Resource’s Wressle site near Scunthorpe is to begin on 5 November 2019.
Fylde planners criticised over support for national fracking decisions
Officials in the area of Cuadrilla’s Lancashire shale gas site have been criticised for backing proposals to take fracking decisions out of local hands.
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