Residents in North Yorkshire are being urged to stand together to fight plans for lower-volume fracking. Europa Oil & Gas is ...

To qualify as associated hydraulic fracturing, The Petroleum Act 1998 requires operations to use fracking fluid measuring ...

The government has been urged to withdraw the licence for oil operations at Balcombe in West Sussex because of the risk of ...

David Eddy, chair of Foxholes and Butterwick Parish Council, in North Yorkshire, reports on the challenges facing local ...

Controversial proposals by Egdon Resources to produce oil in the Lincolnshire Wolds are due to be decided by a full planning ...

Planners at North Lincolnshire Council ruled that two new wells at Wressle, near Scunthorpe, would contribute to climate change but the likely impact wasn’t enough to require an environmental impact ...

David Eddy, chair of Foxholes and Butterwick Parish Council, in North Yorkshire, reports on the challenges facing local communities dealing with oil and gas developments.

UK onshore daily oil production in June 2025 was the lowest for eight months. The monthly oil volume dropped 7% compared with the month before. The fall was more than twice what would have been ...

A planning inspector has overturned the unanimous refusal of planning permission by West Sussex County Council in March 2021. Link to inspector’s report Frack Free Balcombe Residents’ Association, the ...

A landmark legal challenge to UK onshore oil and gas production was heard by the country’s highest court in 2023. Sarah Finch (front, fourth from right) and supporters outside the Supreme Court in ...

The UK’s most controversial shale gas site has failed to meet the deadline to plug two fracked wells – putting it in breach of planning consent. Cuadrilla’s mothballed Preston New Road shale gas site ...