Proposals to drill for gas and carry out a small-scale frack near the North York Moors National Park would have “significant impacts on the environment”, planners have said.
Angus Energy is seeking permission to drill up to four new wells at the UK’s largest onshore producing gas field.
Plans for gas drilling and small-scale fracking near the North Yorkshire village of Burniston should be assessed for the likely environmental impact, local people unanimously agreed last night.
Analysis by DrillOrDrop reveals that the West Newton oil and gas field in East Yorkshire has seen more than 15 years of delays, missed deadlines and changing plans.
The latest legal challenge against testing an exploratory oil well at Balcombe in West Sussex will be heard in January 2025.
Rathlin Energy will fail to meet its obligations to drill a production well at West Newton in East Yorkshire because it can’t find the money, it was revealed today.
DrillOrDrop’s diary of events in summer 2024 involving the UK onshore oil and gas industry and campaigns about it.
The deadline to start drilling a gas exploration well in Surrey has been extended again.
A local campaign group is celebrating the formal end to shale gas operations near an important nature reserve in the Nottinghamshire village of Misson.
Partners in a scheme to produce oil and gas in East Yorkshire have announced what appear to be big changes to their plans.
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