Timeline: shale gas in the UK

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2011

2012

2013

2014

October

2015

December

  • Task Force on Shale Gas - publishes final report, concluding that 'shale gas can be produced safely and usefully in the UK', and that there is 'no more risk to the public from fracking than other comparable industries'. This echoes industry and UK government's position.

2016

January

  • 8: An interview with a senior executive of INEOS, Tim Pickering, reveals company’s intention to divert efforts in shale gas exploration away from Scotland, towards Cheshire and other areas of England, following significant costs of running informational community meetings. [1]


  • 12: Bailiffs evict an anti-fracking protest camp at the IGas Duttons Lane site near Chester, with the estimated involvement of 175 officers from four police forces, and nine arrests.[2]


  • 19: Nottinghamshire County Council approves IGas’s application for up to twelve groundwater monitoring boreholes at a proposed shale gas site, despite 314 public objections to the application. [4]
  • 31: A leaked government plan from July 2015, signed by three cabinet ministers, reveals proposals to take decisions for fracking wells away from local councils were tabled shortly after Lancashire County Council refused permission to Cuadrilla to frack wells in the Fylde.[5]


February

March

April

May

June

July

August

Notes

  1. Ruth Hayhurst, INEOS interview: Company spotlight turns to English shale gas areas, Drill or Drop, 8 January 2016, accessed 13 September 2016
  2. Damien Gayle, Anti-fracking protesters evicted from Cheshire camp, The Guardian, 12 January 2016, accessed 13 September 2016
  3. Kevin Hollinrake, All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Unconventional Oil and Gas, Kevin Hollinrake, 18 January 2016, accessed 13 September 2016
  4. Misson borehole drilling plan given the green light, Retford Times, 19 January 2016, accessed 13 September 2016
  5. Christopher Hope, Ministers plot to foil anti-frackers, The Telegraph, 30 January 2016, accessed 13 September 2016