Climate change
Climate change We are facing a global climate emergency caused by human-made greenhouse gas emissions. Droughts, storms, floods and fires are devastating people’s lives. Millions of people are fleeing their …
UKOG to hold public engagement event on the Isle of Wight
UK Oil & Gas Plc (UKOG) is holding a public engagement event on Monday 16th December 2019 to tell residents about the planning applications it intends to submit to the …
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Faith at the Gate
An interfaith event to shine a light on the climate crisis and the climate battleground at Horse Hill. It will involve a song, an inclusive prayer and some silence, a …
Back-to-back wells
This type of oil deposit very much depends on being able to drill your wells almost back to back so it becomes very much like an industrialised process
Broadford Bridge
PEDL 234 Current Operator: UKOG Activities suspended in March 2018, but planning permission has been repeatedly extended. In December 2023 UKOG applied for a further two year extension. The site …
Local campaigner issues legal challenge to oil production plans
Press release from Leigh Day A resident of Redhill in Surrey has issued a legal challenge against Surrey County Council’s decision to grant planning permission to allow Horse Hill Developments Ltd …
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UKOG injunction to be challenged in the High Court
The Weald Action Group will be going to the High Court to challenge oil company UK Oil and Gas Plc (UKOG)’s attempts to stifle protest – but not until next …
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Why doesn’t the fracking moratorium cover acidising too?
The surprise announcement of a moratorium on fracking in England earlier this month left many people confused about which operations had been banned. Campaigners across the Weald received celebratory messages …
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Support Surrey Oil Legal Challenge: Crowdfunder launched
A local campaigner has launched a Crowdfunder appeal to raise funds for a judicial review of Surrey County Council’s decision to allow massive expansion of oil drilling at Horse Hill …
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Fracking moratorium should cover extreme oil and gas sites in South East
The new ban on fracking should be extended to cover all fossil fuel sites using extreme techniques, like acidisation and matrix acidising, says the Weald Action Group. Local campaign group, …
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