Campaigners gathered outside the Horndean B oil site in Hampshire yesterday (6 September 2026) to launch a fundraiser for a legal challenge over methane pollution from onshore oil and gas sites in the UK.
A company’s assessment of the climate impact of oil production at Horse Hill in Surrey is flawed and any permission based on it would be unlawful, campaigners said today.
The government’s climate advisor has said the moratorium on fracking in England should not be lifted without an “in-depth” climate review.
Residents in a North Yorkshire village where there are plans for lower-volume fracking have called on the energy minister to apologise over claims he made about the process.
UK onshore oil and gas saw increased daily rates and a higher contribution to total production in June 2024.
Most of the official exploration licences issued nearly a decade ago in England’s bid to go “all out for shale” no longer exist.
Production fell at Wressle, the UK’s newest onshore oil producer, but rose at Saltfleetby, the country’s largest onshore gas producer.
Cuadrilla has relinquished three shale gas licences in Yorkshire, its Australian owner confirmed this morning.
Beliefs about the seriousness of climate change appear to be influencing attitudes against UK shale gas extraction, despite the war in Ukraine, a new study has concluded.
Plans by Cuadrilla for a two-year delay in restoring its controversial fracking site near Blackpool were published today.
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