Protect the North Yorkshire Heritage Coastline from fracking!
URGENT ENVIRONMENT AGENCY UPDATE:
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The date for responses to the Environment Agency permit
consultation has been extended until the 7th October 2025.
Suggestions on how to respond to the Environmental Permit Consultation here.
Link to comment on Environment Agency permit consultation here.
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​Read Frack Free Coastal Communities response to the Environment Agency here.
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Drill or drop - Villagers highlight environmental “flaws” in North Yorkshire fracking plans
Our beautiful North Yorkshire heritage coastline near Scarborough is in grave danger of being fracked for gas and turned into the UK’s biggest onshore gas field.
Fossil Fuel company Europa oil and gas have put in an application to the North Yorkshire council to build a huge 38 metre high drilling rig and use a process called ‘Proppant Squeeze’ to drill for gas. This is essentially fracking, but using smaller quantities of liquid in order to bypass the UK’s anti-fracking laws. It’s been called ‘fracking by the back door’.
If the application is approved, Europa could potentially be drilling/fracking in the area for the next 20 years. This would be devastating to the local environment, which is one of the most beautiful and unspoilt in the UK, as well as to the wider climate.
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SIGN AND SHARE OUR PETITION
We are calling on the government to close the loophole in the fracking law and ban ‘small scale fracking. We have nearly reached 10,000 signatures, at which point the Government has to respond to the petition. Please sign and share far and wide to get to this first step.
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We need at least 100,000 signatures for parliament to consider the issue for debate.
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Please sign and share here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/728912
Please visit our What You Can Do page to find out more about what you can do to help fight this disastrous proposal.
And for more details on the damage the fracking will do, see our About the Fracking page.