The flare stack at Cuadrilla’s former fracking site near Blackpool was removed this lunchtime. Opponents of Cuadrilla’s shale ...

Six Just Stop Oil protesters, including the group’s co-founder, had their prison sentences reduced by the Court of Appeal this morning. Roger Hallam and 15 other activists had been jailed last year ...

The volume of UK onshore oil produced in December 2024 was up 5% , compared with the month before, almost topping the record for the year. December was the first month since July for UK onshore oil ...

2024 UK onshore oil production fell for the 11 th consecutive year to the lowest level for 37 years, according to official data published this week. Onshore dry gas production in the UK was also down: ...

Media reports earlier this month referred to drilling in “ancient mudstones” in the area around Gainsborough. But today, at what was billed as the formal launch of the discovery, the chair and chief ...

A campaigner who brought a legal challenge against oil production plans in Lincolnshire, was escorted out of an energy conference in the county this morning. Mathilda Dennis, a campaigner against ...

Location of the Gainsborough Trough in the East Midlands. Source: North Sea Transition Authority. https://www.nstauthority.co.uk/media/1695/uk_onshore_2013.pdf The ...

At least 10 lorry loads of equipment were delivered today to decommission two former shale gas wells at Cuadrilla’s mothballed fracking site near Blackpool. Decommissioning equipment delivered to ...

Permission for oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds has been quashed following the landmark climate judgement by the Supreme Court last month. Another key decision, to allow a new coal mine in ...

The UK must swap oil and gas for clean electricity to meet its next set of carbon reduction targets, the government’s climate advisor said today. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) said that by 2040 ...

Anti-fracking campaigners were outside council headquarters in North Yorkshire again today – nearly nine years after councillors approved plans for hydraulic fracturing in Ryedale. Protest outside the ...

Plans to explore for gas near a village between Scarborough and Bridlington will not need a detailed environmental assessment, council officials have decided. Proposed site layout for Foxholes gas ...