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Weald Action Group
@wealdactiongroup.bsky.social
A collaboration of grassroots groups and campaigners against all forms of fossil fuel extraction across The Weald & UK Southeast.
www.wealdactiongroup.org.uk
📢 Campaign win in Hampshire 📢

We’ve just had misleading pro-oil language stripped out of the Hampshire Minerals & Waste Plan!

The claim that onshore oil “makes an important contribution to supply” and benefits from being close to centres of demand, has been deleted.
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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Outrageous.

Ministers should be listening to scientists, frontline communities and those working towards a green transition – not hosting the interests of oil giants in their own offices.

✍🏼 - @adamramsay.bsky.social

abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/revealed-o...
Revealed: oil industry lobbyist working inside UK’s climate department
Polanski slams arrangement; experts warn of 'corporate infiltration antithetical to democracy'
abolishwestminster.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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@wealdactiongroup.bsky.social is considering legal action over methane emissions from onshore oil & gas sites.

We've written to DESNZ and the Environment Agency. Depending on their response, we may bring a claim for judicial review. Read more ⬇️

www.wealdactiongroup.org.uk/2026/01/new-...
Weald Action Group launches new legal action to tackle methane pollution from onshore oil and gas – Weald Action Group
www.wealdactiongroup.org.uk
January 6, 2026 at 12:21 PM
We have taken the first steps in a legal action over methane pollution from onshore oil and gas. Our lawyers have sent a formal letter to DESNZ and the Environment Agency about failures in the Methane Action Plan, and long-running weak regulation at oil sites such as Horndean in Sussex.
January 5, 2026 at 11:14 AM
The UK onshore industry drilled no oil and gas wells during 2025. This is just the second time in more than 100 years that no onshore wells were drilled in a calendar year.

We are winning.

Reporting by @drillordrop.bsky.social

drillordrop.com/2026/01/01/w...
Who drilled where in 2025?
The UK onshore industry drilled no oil and gas wells during 2025, according to official data.
drillordrop.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Happy new year!

2025 was quite a year for us. We saw continuing impacts of our 2024 Supreme Court win, and renewed debate on the vexed definition of fracking. And we started work on a new campaign on methane.

Read the highlights: www.wealdactiongroup.org.uk/2025/12/2025...

(Photo: Uplift)
January 1, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Merry Christmas Drill or Drop! Thank you for all your great work over the year (and every year).

Everyone interested in onshore oil & gas, follow @drillordrop.bsky.social for incisive reporting on all aspects of the industry, and the fight against it.
December 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Ban small-scale fracking for onshore oil and gas!

This petition by Burniston campaigners already triggered a parliamentary debate. Please show the strength of feeling on this issue by signing it and sharing in your networks.

Closing date 4 January 2026

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Ban "small-scale fracking" for onshore oil and gas
Fracking forces fluid into rocks to open cracks so oil or gas can flow out. It was banned in 2019 after being blamed for causing earthquakes in shale gas drilling. But the ban only covers fracking wit...
petition.parliament.uk
December 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Surprise Surprise, UKOG have *still* not come forward with their revised application for Horse Hill. “We can expect that now in the early part of the new year...”

Do @surreycc.gov.uk realise UKOG is just stringing them along to avoid restoring the site (as they are doing at Broadford Bridge)?
December 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Two oil companies drop their appeal against the refusal of planning permission to produce oil at Biscathorpe.

Just a week after receiving objections from us, @sosbiscathorpe.bsky.social and others.

The industry is realising there is no justification for investment in onshore oil and gas.
Breaking: Oil companies drop Biscathorpe appeal - Partners seeking to produce oil in the protected Lincolnshire Wolds have abandoned their challenge to the refusal of planning permission, a formal statement announced this morning.

drillordrop.com/2025/12/15/b...
Breaking: Oil companies drop Biscathorpe appeal
Partners seeking to produce oil in the protected Lincolnshire Wolds have abandoned their challenge to the refusal of planning permission, a formal statement announced this morning.
drillordrop.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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After five years of setbacks, Sarah Finch finally won.
Her message isn’t about easy victories. It’s about persistence and believing that one action can trigger a tipping point in the right direction.

Hear Sarah’s story on the EQUALS Podcast: www.equals.ink/p/a-hopeful-...

#ClimateJustice
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We sent a damning response to the consultation on the Rosebank oil field.

Rosebank's oil could generate 254 million tonnes of CO₂e equivalent over its lifetime. Equinor's claim this would "not cause significant harm" is dishonest.

www.wealdactiongroup.org.uk/2025/11/weal...
Weald Action Group response to the consultation on Rosebank – Weald Action Group
www.wealdactiongroup.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Are you a member of a trade union?

Trade unionists are calling on the Labour government to do the right thing by the planet, UK communities and workers, and refuse approval for the climate-wrecking Rosebank oil field.

Sign the open letter 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Trade unionists say: Stop Rosebank!
If you are a trade union member, please add your name to this open letter to oppose approval of the Rosebank oil field. Signatories will be published. There is no strict cut-off point to sign, but we ...
docs.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Listen to Sarah Finch talk about how we made history in the Supreme Court, forcing fossil fuel companies to face the full climate impact of their projects.

Our win is now facing its biggest test: Rosebank. The govt must reject this climate-wrecking project once and for all

@stopcambo.bsky.social
New episode is out! 𝐀 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐓𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭

@sarahfinch.bsky.social took Big Oil to court and won. Her landmark Supreme Court case ruling now forces every new fossil fuel project in the UK to face its true climate cost.

Power, persistence, and hope.

🎧 Listen: www.equals.ink/p/a-hopeful-...
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Good news! The govt has published its long-awaited Methane Action Plan.

Bad news! It ignores onshore oil and gas production.

Every year, millions of tonnes of methane are vented, burned, and leaked from UK onshore oil sites
www.wealdactiongroup.org.uk/2025/10/meth...
October 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The facts are clear. Rosebank would help oil giants, not working people or the planet.

We deserve clean, affordable energy that works for everyone

Tell Starmer to back renewables and reject Rosebank👇
actionnetwork.org/forms/the-government-wants-to-hear-from-you-on-equinors-application-for-rosebank
Decision time: Tell Keir to #StopRosebank
This is the moment we've been building towards: it's final decision time for the UK Government. Equinor is trying to get the new Rosebank oil field re-approved. It's up to us all to convince the Gover...
actionnetwork.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"Until these systemic issues are addressed, planning for onshore energy projects will continue to feel less like a democratic process and more like an endurance test for those who care most about the places they live."

So true. The onshore oil & gas permitting regime needs a thorough overhaul.
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Bad idea!

The ability to request judicial review is a vital safeguard against the govt making bad decisions and ignoring environmental rules & agreements.

Without the Aarhus Convention, @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social and I would not have been able to bring our case on oil production at Horse Hill
September 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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ARGH!! A bad and irresponsible decision.

It also goes against the Planning Inspectorate’s advice that the second runway plans should be refused for a number of reasons, including the greenhouse gas emissions.

Glad to know that legal challenges are on the way.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Gatwick given green light for £2.2bn second runway plan
Heidi Alexander approves expansion to allow 100,000 more flights a year
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Urge Ed Miliband & the UK Govt to commit to strong, enforceable rules in the National Methane Action Plan.

Please sign and share

www.wealdactiongroup.org.uk/2025/09/add-...
September 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
✍️ Sign our joint letter: tinyurl.com/Cut-Methane-2025

🎯 Cutting methane is one of the fastest, cheapest ways to slow global warming. Urge Ed Miliband & the UK Govt to commit to strong, enforceable rules in the National Methane Action Plan.

#climateactionuk
September 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Very glad to see national organisations take this on. We have argued for years that planning rules for onshore oil & gas should be just as strong as those for offshore.
September 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Sign this @friends_earth petition and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent.
👇
action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tel...
Tell Keir Starmer to make the fracking ban permanent
Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So i...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
August 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Meanwhile, the deputy leader of Reform-led Lancashire County Council says conditions are "not conducive to fracking, and there are no plans for it to take place here". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
August 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Nobody, apart from a handful of small companies, wants fracking. This article is good on some of the reasons why but neglects to mention climate.

We stand firm in our opposition to all forms of fracking, and to any new oil and gas developments on- or offshore.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms
The party is serious about going after shale gas - but critics argue it's too difficult and costly.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM