In this week’s listings: North West Week in the United Resistance campaign; Second week of evidence at the Roseacre Wood public inquiry – Roseacre Awareness Group and public statements; Drop-in sessions for Derbyshire Minerals Plan consultation; Bolsover Against Fracking public meeting; UK Investor Show; Plus meetings, fundraisers and consultation deadline.
Drilling of the UK’s first horizontal shale gas well has been completed, Cuadrilla announced this morning.
Fracking Week in Parliament The SNP MP, Drew Hendry, asked the government last week about the environmental risks of oil drilling in south east England.
April 2018 sees inquiries into Cuadrilla and INEOS shale gas plans and the start of a 13-week campaign against fracking in Lancashire. Keep up with the news with DrillOrDrop’s digest of headlines about fracking, shale and onshore oil and gas updated daily.
60+ events in April 2018 about UK fracking and onshore oil and gas Start of 13-week United Resistance campaign against Cuadrilla’s operation in Lancashire Public inquiry on Cuadrilla’s Roseacre Wood plans; Rally outside the opening of the Roseacre inquiry; Public inquiry on INEOS’s Bramleymoor Lan plans; Decision on […]
The organisation representing owners and managers of more than half the rural land in England and Wales has accused INEOS of damaging goodwill by taking the National Trust to court.
The public inquiry into proposals by INEOS Upstream to explore for shale gas near the village of Marsh Lane will be held in Chesterfield, Derbyshire County Council confirmed today.
Fracking Week in Parliament. What is the government doing to determine whether there’s any evidence that Russia has issued fake news to discredit the UK fracking industry? This question was put to ministers by the former Conservative Home Office Minister, David Maclean.
The Conservative MP, Lee Rowley, who objected to INEOS plans in his constituency, is the chair of a new group at Westminster investigating the impact of shale gas.
Anti-fracking opponents from across the country took part in a mass “dance-off” protest outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site near Blackpool today.
