Council worked for oil company on Biscathorpe production bid
A council which declared a climate state of emergency was paid by an oil company in its latest bid for long-term production.
2025 diary
DrillOrDrop’s diary of events in 2025 involving the UK onshore oil and gas industry and campaigns about it.
“Rig shortage” delays abandonment of Cuadrilla’s fracked wells
Work to decommission mothballed shale gas wells at the Preston New Road fracking site in Lancashire is now expected to take until the end of March 2025, Cuadrilla has revealed.
Call for more action to cut methane emissions
More transparency is needed on progress to ending routine venting and flaring of methane at UK oil and gas sites, a parliamentary report said today.
“UK climate policy on a precipice” – report warns
Delays and U-turns on the climate by the last government have left the UK “overly reliant on expensive fossil fuels”, a new report argues this morning.
Autumn-winter 2024 diary
DrillOrDrop’s diary of events in autumn and winter 2024 involving the UK onshore oil and gas industry and campaigns about it.
East Sussex votes against fossil fuel divestment
East Sussex councillors voted this morning against ending pension fund investments in fossil fuels.
Activists scale council offices over fossil fuel divestment
Climate campaigners climbed onto to the roof of a council headquarters today in their bid to end pension fund investment in fossil fuels.
Cuadrilla’s progress report on mothballed frack site is late again
A progress report on decommissioning Cuadrilla’s fracking site in Lancashire is late, for the second time.
Carbon footprint of West Newton gas “significantly lower” than UK average – report
Potential gas production from two sites in East Yorkshire would have a significantly lower carbon footprint than the UK average, according to new estimates.
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