Highland Natural Resources said it has executed an agreement to enable an additional commercial application in a re-frack project located in the Denver Julesburg Basin.
Objectors to a controversial application to frack for shale gas in North Yorkshire have told councillors they do not want the county to become known as the “fracking capital of the UK”.
The Environment Secretary has been urged to apologise to communities facing fracking for “holding back” evidence of the risks of shale exploration in rural areas.
And campaigners have called for fracking to be put on hold in the UK while a “genuinely independent, qualified body” reviews all the risks associated with the controversial process of extracting gas and oil.
A draft report from the Environment Department (Defra) said fracking could reduce house prices, increase traffic, produce deafening noise for residents and damage the landscape in rural communities.
