Reporting the prosecutions of campaigners arrested at protests against the exploitation of unconventional oil and gas
Government departments paid no compensation to UK shale gas companies over the restoration of the fracking moratorium, even though the industry warned of a multi-million pound court action.
A landmark legal challenge that will shape future decisions on fossil fuel developments comes to the UK’s highest court next week.
Government go-ahead for gas drilling in the Surrey village of Dunsfold breached planning rules, the High Court heard today.
A drilling project in the chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s constituency will be challenged at the High Court tomorrow (Thursday 8 June).
Balcombe residents will be at the High Court in London next month for their legal challenge to the government go-ahead for oil testing in their village.
Two legal challenges to the government’s decision to allow a controversial new coal mine in Cumbria are to be heard at the High Court.
Two climate campaigners accused of criminal damage at a fossil fuels protest on Cambridge University land have been found not guilty after nearly three years.
A landmark legal case on the climate impacts of onshore oil production, to be heard by the Supreme Court in June, could threaten plans for a controversial new coal mine in Cumbria – as well as other fossil fuel developments.
Opponents of plans to test an oil well at the West Sussex village of Balcombe have got permission to bring a legal challenge.
Campaigners have been granted permission to challenge last year’s decision by the government to issue new oil and gas licences.
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