Reporting the prosecutions of campaigners arrested at protests against the exploitation of unconventional oil and gas
The Office for Environmental Protection has been given permission by the Supreme Court to intervene in a landmark legal challenge over the climate impact of oil production in Surrey.
The legal challenge to drilling for gas near the Surrey village of Dunsfold will go to the High Court in eight weeks.
Residents have submitted their legal case over an extended test at the Balcombe oil site in West Sussex.
Residents in the West Sussex village of Balcombe are seeking to set a legal precedent against onshore oil and gas operations across southern England.
The High Court has given the go-ahead to a legal challenge against gas drilling near the Surrey village of Dunsfold.
Protesters from across south-east England gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London this morning to voice their anger at the government overturning Surrey County Council’s refusal of planning permission for gas exploration near the village of Dunsfold.
Opponents of plans to explore for gas near the Surrey village of Dunsfold take their case to the Royal Courts of Justice next week.
The new organisation created to hold government to account on the environment is seeking to contribute to a landmark legal case on the climate impact of onshore oil production.
The would-be fracking company, Ineos, has been ordered to pay the costs of two campaigners who challenged its controversial injunctions.
The Court of Appeal has rejected a legal challenge to UK government investment of $1.15bn in a liquified natural gas project in Mozambique.
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