“We need to get on with fracking” – Liz Truss
The UK’s shortest serving prime minister has called for a revival of fracking for shale gas.
Equipment arrives to decommission Misson shale gas site
Equipment to plug and abandon the mothballed well at a shale gas site in north Nottinghamshire was delivered this morning.
Revealed: timetable for plugging Cuadrilla’s fracked wells
Cuadrilla’s fracked shale gas wells in Lancashire should be decommissioned in six months. But the company’s deadline depends on the availability of a rig.
Cuadrilla earned nothing in 2023 but spent $2.4m – annual accounts
The former fracking company, Cuadrilla, earned nothing for its Australian owner in the past 12 months but spent Aus$2.4m.
Star Energy selling two potential drilling sites in Cheshire
Two plots of land, acquired by Star Energy companies for gas drilling near Chester, are being sold.
“Goodbye and good riddance” – campaigners react to order to plug Cuadrilla’s fracked wells
Opponents of Cuadrilla’s fracking operation in Lancashire have welcomed today’s news that the company has been ordered to decommission two shale gas wells.
Cuadrilla pulls back from another licence
Cuadrilla Resources is to give up operation of one of its Yorkshire licences, under an agreement announced today.
Cuadrilla gives up three Yorkshire shale gas licences
Cuadrilla has relinquished three shale gas licences in Yorkshire, its Australian owner confirmed this morning.
No damages for fracking industry over reinstatement of moratorium, despite threat of “mammoth legal challenge”
Government departments paid no compensation to UK shale gas companies over the restoration of the fracking moratorium, even though the industry warned of a multi-million pound court action.
Updated: Planners back more time to restore Cuadrilla’s Lancashire fracking site
Cuadrilla should be given an extra two years to return its controversial fracking site near Blackpool to farmland, council planners have said.
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