Parish councillors voted by 8 to nil to object to plans for gas exploration and small-scale hydraulic fracturing in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston. About 100 people attending an extraordinary meeting last night also unanimously opposed the scheme in a show-of-hands.
A campaign group opposing oil testing in the West Sussex village of Balcombe has raised enough money to apply for permission to challenge a High Court judgement.
Councillors in East Yorkshire voted unanimously this afternoon for a review of pension fund investments away from fossil fuels
Balcombe residents will be at the High Court in London next month for their legal challenge to the government go-ahead for oil testing in their village.
Opponents of plans to test an oil well at the West Sussex village of Balcombe have got permission to bring a legal challenge.
Councillors in Surrey have unanimously rejected plans by IGas to manufacture hydrogen from methane at its site at Albury near Guildford.
Plans for a well test at the controversial oil site at Balcombe in West Sussex have been approved.
The oil company, Egdon Resources, is to challenge today’s refusal of planning permission at its undeveloped North Kelsey site in Lincolnshire.
Lincolnshire councillors this morning unanimously refused more time for an undeveloped oil site near Market Rasen – the third time the operator had sought to extend the life of the site.
The operator of the controversial Balcombe oil site in West Sussex has said it intends to appeal against the rejection of its well test.
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