Proposals to explore for gas near the edge of the North York Moors would not cause “significant harm” to the national park, the park’s authority agreed this morning.
Alba Mineral Resources has cut by 94% the value of its stake in Horse Hill – the Surrey oil site at the centre of last year’s landmark Supreme Court judgement.
Council officials have taken action against the operator and owner of a West Sussex dormant oil site over clean-up delays.
There is still no date for final clearance of the oil site at the centre of a Supreme Court landmark judgement issued nine months ago.
Waste fluid from oil wells across southern England can be tankered to a village in the Surrey green belt, where it will be pumped underground, councillors decided this morning.
The operators of a mothballed well site in an East Yorkshire village have been accused of apparently “misusing the planning system for their own benefit”.
Planners are supporting proposals to tanker wastewater from oil wells in southern England to inject into site in a Surrey village to boost production.
Cuadrilla had until Sunday 8 June 2025 to restore its former Lancashire fracking site at Preston New Road to farmland. But so far, the work has not started.
An expanded oil and gas site at Wressle in North Lincolnshire could add more than 900,000 tonnes of carbon emissions over its life, a new report has shown.
The UK’s biggest onshore gas producer has reported an annual loss of more than £4m, down more than 100% on the profit in the year before.
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