Officials have taken the first steps to force IGas to restore its shale gas site at Misson Springs in Nottinghamshire. Correspondence seen by DrillOrDrop confirms that IGas has failed to begun restoration work on time. Because of the lack of progress, Nottinghamshire County Council has now served Restoration […]
The oil and gas operator, Egdon Resources, has reported increased revenues of more than 530% because of rising production and prices.
Three years ago today, the government formally confirmed a moratorium on fracking in England.
Anti-fracking groups in Lancashire are calling on the government and regulators to order the permanent plugging and abandonment of wells at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site.
The shale gas lobbying organisation has accused the government of dealing in “ideology and fiction” by reinstating the moratorium on fracking.
Three campaign organisations have taken the first step in a legal challenge to the government’s lifting of the moratorium on fracking in England.
The shadow climate secretary, Ed Miliband, on a visit to the shale gas village of Misson in Nottinghamshire today, promised that a Labour government would ban fracking.
The new climate minister said today that developing UK shale gas would be good for the environment, the economy and jobs.
As ministers consider how to compensate people living near shale gas sites, a DrillOrDrop analysis of the UK’s only fracking community benefit fund raises questions about its value.
Liz Truss did not mention fracking in her speech to the Conservative conference in Birmingham. But leading campaigners from Greenpeace heckled over the party’s U-turn on the moratorium on fracking.
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