The decision on controversial plans to drill for gas and carry out lower volume fracking near the North York Moors National Park should be delayed, a council was urged today.

A government minister is to decide whether there should be a detailed environmental study of plans to expand oil production ...

Partners seeking to produce oil in the protected Lincolnshire Wolds have abandoned their challenge to the refusal of planning ...

Key information that will determine the future of the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey has been delayed, officials have revealed ...

Work to plug and abandon wells at a dormant oil site in West Sussex is due to begin this month, DrillOrDrop has learned.

An official report by UK Oil & Gas plc reveals why it gave up a licence to develop hydrocarbons in parts of Surrey and West ...

The government said today there was no evidence of risk from lower volume fracking. Energy minister, Michael Shanks, speaking ...

The decision on Angus Energy’s planning application for an extended well test at Balcombe will not now be made this month.

A senior campaigner with a European environmental organisation has described how he was arrested at the Tour de France carrying anti-fracking fliers and masks of the Ineos boss, Jim Ratcliffe.

The government is seeking to change the rules that help people make legal challenges to environmental decisions. The proposals, if approved, could make it more expensive and risky to seek a judicial ...

Surrey County Council interrupted its meeting today when campaigners, calling for a halt to oil drilling, began singing the hit song by The Police Every Breath You Take.