Action on climate emergency
Delay Burniston gas decision call from Friends of the Earth. The environmental organisation has written to North Yorkshire Council (NYC) urging it to delay its decision about a controversial new fracking proposal in Burniston, North Yorkshire. It comes after the government published draft changes to national planning policy in mid – December that, if adopted, …
Climate news around Yorkshire over the last months shows a focus on sewage and solar, as well as a worrying planning application for a fracking site. Although we may not have noticed here in North Yorkshire, but (meteorological) Summer 2024 was the Earth’s warmest on record, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Summer in …
Support a frack free Burniston is a call from residents of Burniston near Scarborough, as the local community face the potential of a fracking application to North Yorkshire Council from Egdon Resources & Europa Oil & Gas. A moratorium on fracking was applied by the government in 2019 to end support for fracking, as a …