Investigative journalist and environmental writer. Specialising in UK onshore oil and gas, fracking and the reaction to it.
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak was criticised today for his government’s plans to expand North Sea oil and gas extraction, while promoting renewable energy at the COP27 climate talks.
Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, called today for oil and gas companies to contribute to the cost of climate change.
The former US vice president, Al Gore, speaking on the opening day of the COP27 climate talks, criticised the world’s addiction to fossil fuels. He told world leaders meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt: “We must see the so-called ‘dash for gas’ for what it really is: a […]
The UN secretary-general has called on all industrialised countries to tax the windfall profits of fossil fuel companies.
“This is not the moment to abandon the campaign for net zero”, the former UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, told the opening day of the COP27 climate talks in Egypt.
DrillOrDrop’s review of the latest UK onshore oil data for July 2022: daily production falls at Wytch Farm to the lowest level for 10 years and the Gatwick Gusher slows to a trickle.
Three years ago today, the government formally confirmed a moratorium on fracking in England.
Keep up to date with November 2022’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas.
The UK government is failing in its commitment that the public sector should “lead by example” on decarbonisation, MPs said today.
The former Green Party MEP and environmental campaigner, Keith Taylor, has died, aged 69.
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