Month: March 2023

UPDATE: The Planning & Regulatory Committee REFUSED this proposal.

Surrey County Council’s Planning & Regulatory Committee will discuss IGas’s application for installation of a steam methane reformation unit for the production of hydrogen from methane extracted from the Albury wellsite at their meeting on 29 March 2023.

The Council’s Planning Development Manager has recommended the plans be REFUSED – on grounds including harm to the Green Belt and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and failure to demonstrate that the development would not result in an unacceptable risk to protected lichen habitats.

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Frack Free Balcombe Residents Association (FFBRA) is going to court to challenge the Planning Inspector’s decision to allow Angus Energy to flow test in Balcombe.

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UPDATE

The High Court gave the go-ahead to the legal challenge against exporatory gas drilling near Dunsfold.

The court decided that the challenge should be considered on two grounds, concerning whether the government gave sufficient consideration to harm to the nearby Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and inconsistencies with its decision to refuse permission for gas testing at Ellesmere Port because of carbon emissions.

Continue reading “Challenge to Surrey Gas Drilling decision at the Royal Court of Justice”