Balcombe seeks legal challenge to test of oil well
The village at the centre of anti-fracking protests 10 years ago is taking on the oil industry again.
The village at the centre of anti-fracking protests 10 years ago is taking on the oil industry again.
Councillors in Surrey have refused permission for a scheme to produce hydrogen at a gas site near Bletchingley.
The county which hosted the UK’s only high volume fracking sites voted unanimously this afternoon to keep planning decisions on the process with the local planning authority.
More than seven years of controversial oil exploration in the West Sussex village of Balcombe could be at an end after councillors blocked plans for a well test.
Residents of a small village near Swansea are to make a formal complaint about how councillors decided a planning application for coal bed methane exploration near their homes.