Reporting the prosecutions of campaigners arrested at protests against the exploitation of unconventional oil and gas
A judge in Manchester said the failure of prosecutors to provide a barrister for an on-going case involving the IGas drilling site at Barton Moss was “inexcusable” and “unacceptable”.
An internationally-recognised tribunal is to examine whether some countries have breached basic human rights by allowing fracking.
The two oil companies behind an exploratory drilling site in West Sussex are suing each other in the High Court in London, according to a financial document filed in the US.
The judge at a trial of two anti-fracking campaigners warned them that taking part in protests in future could be expensive.
The risks posed by the oil industry justified a protest outside an exploratory drilling site near Gatwick airport, a court heard this morning.
Two environmental campaigners allege they were assaulted during an anti-fracking protest outside the exploratory oil site at Horse Hill in Surrey last year.
The former head of the company exploring for oil near Gatwick failed to appear in court this morning to give evidence at the trial of two anti-fracking campaigners.
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The government has instructed local councils and the police to do more to stop protest camps, including those against oil and gas operations.
Soil samples from a field next to the Barton Moss hydrocarbon site in Salford had dangerous levels of contamination, a court heard today. But more testing is needed to establish where the contamination came from.
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