The site at the centre of a landmark legal challenge is seeking to produce more than 600,000 tonnes of oil over the next 20 years, releasing about two million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.
Residents in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston have a chance to give their views later this month on plans to explore for gas on the edge of the national park and heritage coast.
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.
The group which secured a landmark legal judgement on climate emissions from onshore oil is calling for a block on sales extracted unlawfully at a wellsite in Surrey.
Oil fields run by Star Energy, in or near the South Downs National Park, have been recorded emitting climate-changing gases for the third time.
The company that runs Wytch Farm, the UK’s largest onshore oilfield, has been fined a record sum for releasing gas without permission.
The climate-damaging gas methane is still being released at English onshore oil sites, a year after researchers revealed the problem.
The climate campaigner who was jailed yesterday for contempt of court over a pipeline protest is to appeal.
The Environment Agency has approved new rules for work at the West Newton-B oil and gas site in East Yorkshire.
Plans for what could be one of the UK’s first power stations equipped with carbon capture technology were announced today.
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