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 ...

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

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

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

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

Oil and gas companies will “pile in” with fracking plans all over the country to exploit a legal loophole if a North ...

Balcombe Parish Council has posted a video of the first part of a meeting between villagers and the Environment Agency which discussed regulation at Cuadrilla’s oil exploration site. About 270 people ...

An environmental campaigner is challenging the government over what he says are “misleading” and “inaccurate” claims about the controversial issue of fracking. The energy minister, Michael Shanks, ...

Opponents of plans to drill and frack in a North Yorkshire village have criticised the “inappropriate” technology, “inadequate” risk assessments, missing, incorrect and inconsistent information and a ...

The MP for the North Yorkshire village of Burniston, where a form of fracking is planned, has called for a parliamentary debate on the issue. Alison Hume, Labour MP for Scarborough and Whitby, said ...

A statement to the stock market said UKOG GB Limited had been sold for £400,000 to Servatec, described as the holding company of a well services group in the oil and gas sector. UKOG (GB) Limited has ...

Daily onshore gas production was down 10% in March 2025, compared with February – the lowest level since July last year. Daily oil production was down 3% on the month. Total oil volume was up 8% but ...