Reporting the prosecutions of campaigners arrested at protests against the exploitation of unconventional oil and gas
Three anti-fracking campaigners are due in court tomorrow (Tuesday) in what is believed to be the first trial for an alleged breach of a protest injunction granted to a UK onshore oil or gas company.
A legal challenge to restrictions on protests outside oil sites in southern England has prompted conflicting statements from an oil company and campaigners.
A High Court judge ruled this morning that the government does not have to carry out a new public consultation on its planning policy on fracking.
A road-side camp used to monitor operations at an oil and gas site north of Hull was evicted for the third time today.
A panel of judges at an internationally-recognised tribunal has urged the United Nations to ban fracking.
Anti-fracking campaigns have won a legal challenge to an injunction granted to the shale gas company, Ineos Upstream.
A court in Blackpool ruled today there was no case to answer against nine anti-fracking activists who took part in the longest lock-on protest outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site.
Three law lords have reserved their decision in an appeal against the protest injunction granted to the fracking company, Ineos.
The campaign group, Talk Fracking, has won a challenge against government support in planning policy for fracking.
The injunction against anti-fracking protests granted to Ineos is already breaching rights to freedom of speech, the court of appeal heard today.
