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Plans to construct a temporary wellsite in North Yorkshire to explore the potential for natural gas have been rejected by a council’s planning committee.
North Yorkshire Council’s planning committee turned down the application from oil and gas exploration, development and production company, Europa Oil & Gas, for a site in Burniston, near Scarborough, despite planning officers recommending approval.
Europa Oil & Gas, which wants to install a 38-metre drilling rig and use a “proppant squeeze” method to extract gas for testing, said it would mount an appeal.
William Holland, chief executive officer of the business, said: “Our planning application for the well at Burniston was underpinned by 13…
