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Last month, Lancashire County Council rejected Cuadrilla's application to undertake exploratory drilling on the Roseacre site.

In 1998, Bruce Babbitt, President Bill Clinton's interior secretary, authorized exploratory drilling on four million acres.

In turn, the Cuomo administration has issued NYCO a permit for exploratory drilling on the land, which is still classified as wilderness.

In April, after another lawsuit was filed by the groups against the United States Bureau of Land Management, a federal judge temporarily blocked exploratory drilling on 2,700 acres of public lands after ruling that the bureau had failed to review the environmental impact of fracking.

Cuadrilla scales back exploratory drilling on police advice, as more activists begin arriving at a nearby protest site.

The government should not propose additional oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic -- and should not allow exploratory drilling on existing leases -- until we have protected the most environmentally sensitive areas and until oil companies have demonstrated that prevention and cleanup methods will be effective.

The federal moratorium on exploratory drilling for oil in deep-sea waters is tantamount to an attack on Louisiana's way of life, politicians and business leaders said Wednesday at an oil-industry-sponsored rally here.

Shell has so far spent £3.2bn buying up leases and on exploratory drilling off Alaska's north and north-west coasts but has yet to discover any commercial quantities of oil.

We now need to get on with exploratory drilling to find out the extent of the UK's reserves".

Leftist rebels kidnapped five gold prospectors doing exploratory drilling for a Canadian company on Friday in a northern province, officials said.

"We now need to get on with exploratory drilling to find out the extent of the UK's oil and gas reserves," he said.