Campaigners have restarted a legal challenge against a council which ruled that plans to expand the Wressle oil production ...

A well at West Newton in East Yorkshire could be fractured in the next four to nine months, according to a partner in the ...

Villagers in North Yorkshire have agreed to spend more money in their campaign against gas drilling and a form of fracking at ...

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 ...

A key industry regulator has objected to plans for gas exploration and a form of fracking at Burniston in North Yorkshire. The Environment Agency (EA), in its response to a planning application by ...

Michael Shanks wrote in a parliamentary answer, published yesterday: “We are committed to banning fracking for good and any future decision on national planning policy for fracking will take into ...

Sarah Finch told an environmental law conference: “It is a huge victory but it is very vulnerable and we have to defend it.” In a majority ruling almost a year ago, the court said decisionmakers ...

A council says it is taking action to ensure the restoration of Cuadrilla’s former fracking site near Blackpool after the company missed another planning deadline. Cuadrilla’s former shale gas site at ...

Complaints about a smell from Rathlin Energy’s oil and gas site in East Yorkshire were reported to the Environment Agency today.