Government fracking policy faces more legal challenges
The government is being challenged in the High Court this week over its planning policy on fracking.
Ruth Hayhurst
Investigative journalist and environmental writer. Specialising in UK onshore oil and gas, fracking and the reaction to it.
Angus and IGas protest injunctions renewed at High Court
Injunctions sought against protests at sites operated by IGas and Angus Energy has been renewed by a High Court judge.
Red-level tremor stops fracking as total seismic events top 50
Cuadrilla has confirmed that it stopped fracking again today at its Preston New Road site following an earth tremor measuring 0.9ML (local magnitude).
Lancashire fracking votes: “watershed moment for shale” or “political manipulation”?
Two sides of the fracking debate have responded strongly today following votes on earth tremors and protest policing at last night’s meeting of Lancashire County Council.
“Fracking earth tremor felt like a car hitting building” – council told
The largest earth tremor linked to fracking at Cuadrilla’s shale gas site in Lancashire felt like a “car hitting a building at speed”, Lancashire councillors were told today.
Lancashire calls for government funding of anti-fracking protest policing
Councillors in Lancashire are to ask the Home Secretary to pay for policing at anti-fracking protests from central government funding.
IGas injunction on anti-fracking protests is most restrictive yet – High Court told
An injunction sought by the shale gas company, IGas, represents the “high water mark” of restrictions against protests, a challenger claimed today.
Anti-fracking campaigner acquitted of offences under Computer Misuse Act
A Nottinghamshire man accused of interfering with equipment used to explore for shale gas has been found not guilty of offences under the Computer Misuse Act.
Trespassers face bigger penalties at UK fracking sites than Buckingham Palace, court told
Injunctions mean that people who trespass on a UK fracking site face a bigger maximum penalty than if they committed the same offence at Buckingham Palace, the High Court was told today.
Barclaycard dropped as sponsor of Neil Young Hyde Park concert in row over fracking investments
Neil Young has confirmed that his Hyde Park concert in July 2019 will go ahead without sponsorship from Barclaycard in a dispute over investment in fracking.
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