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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

An engineer who has called for stricter regulation of fracking was subjected to a public campaign to discredit him, a disciplinary investigation by his professional body has noted.

IGas told shareholders this morning it was making plans to restore the Tinker Lane site in north Nottinghamshire after drilling failed to find the Bowland shale.

The policing operation outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road fracking site has ended, Lancashire Constabulary has confirmed.

Investment by Egdon Resources in its oil site near Scunthorpe should be considered when deciding whether to extend planning permission, council planners will argue next week.

Residents in a North Yorkshire village where there are plans for lower-volume fracking have called on the energy minister to apologise over claims he made about the process.