600+ sign letter calling on new ministers to extend fracking moratorium
More than 600 academics, politicians and campaigners signed a letter calling on the government to replace the current moratorium on fracking with an outright ban.
Government statement confirms fracking is still allowed under moratorium – campaigners
Some fracking for oil and gas could still go ahead, despite the government’s moratorium, a ministerial statement has indicated.
IGas seeks consent to continue reinjecting radioactive waste at Singleton oil site
People are invited to comment on an application by IGas to dispose of radioactive waste at its Singleton oil site in West Sussex.
Focus at West Newton switches to oil with upgraded volume data
The exploration site at West Newton, north of Hull, has more oil than previously estimated, investors in the site said today.
Guest post: Mind your fracking language
As the dust settles on the government’s fracking U-turn, former ministerial adviser professor Peter Styles explains why definitions matter and how one part of England could be excluded from the moratorium.
Cuadrilla fracked seven times before record-breaking tremor – official logs
Cuadrilla fracked just seven times at its Preston New Road site near Blackpool last month before inducing a record-breaking earth tremor.
Confidential records reveal limitations of Cuadrilla’s Lancashire fracking operation
Two-thirds of the UK’s first horizontal shale gas well was not fracked during a nine-week operation last autumn, according to reports that the company, Cuadrilla, tried to keep secret.
Fracked gas levels at Cuadrilla’s shale site so low that propane needed to light flare stack
A publicity video used by Cuadrilla as evidence of the first shale gas production from its site in Lancashire may not be quite what it seemed.
IGas Ellesmere Port well test is “wrong place at the wrong time”, says campaign group
IGas plans to test a gas well in Ellesmere Port will undermine efforts to regenerate a seriously deprived area and put nearby homes and businesses at risk, campaigners will argue later this month.
Weekend Long Read: Campaigners call for tougher rules on acid use at Weald oil sites
Campaigners in southern England have criticised what they say is a “gaping hole” in the regulations covering the use of acid on oil sites.
