Investigative journalist and environmental writer. Specialising in UK onshore oil and gas, fracking and the reaction to it.
Less than half the arrests at long-running protests outside Cuadrilla’s fracking site have so far ended in convictions, according to figures from Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner.
The Conservative-led council in the area of Cuadrilla’s shale gas site has called on regulators to ban local fracking immediately on safety grounds.
The prime minister has been warned that government support for fracking risks losing the Conservatives seats at the general election.
The safety regulator for the nuclear industry has no information about the risk of earth tremors from fracking near the Hinkley Point power station, a campaign group has revealed.
The government is being urged to change the law to protect people whose property is damaged by fracking.
“I love it because it is not oil”, the head of Angus Energy said of his new gas asset in Lincolnshire.
Environmental campaigners have dismissed Surrey County Council’s use of the term “extremism” for anti-fracking protests.
Details have been published on the latest stage in a long-running planning dispute over oil production at Egdon Resource’s site at Wressle in north Lincolnshire.
Angus Energy’s plans to test the flow of oil at its well at Balcombe in West Sussex are now open for public comment.
An exploration company has told investors about plans to drill next year at a second site at West Newton in East Yorkshire.
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