Updated: East Yorkshire drilling protest tops 50 hours
Updated 13 May 2019 A protest outside an oil and gas exploration site at West Newton, north of Hull, has entered its third day.
Updated picture post: Protests against Team Ineos at Tour de Yorkshire
2 May 2019: Stage 1 Doncaster-Selby Members of Team Ineos were cheered and jeered at the start of the Tour de Yorkshire this morning.
Picture post: Youth protest at shale gas seminar
A group of six young people blocked the entrances of a seminar on the UK unconventional oil and gas industry this morning.
Lorry protest prompts haulage company to pull out of fracking deliveries
A haulage company has said it will not deliver to fracking companies after a protester climbed onto the cab outside Cuadrilla’s site in Lancashire this morning.
Picture post: IGas announces spud of Tinker Lane shale gas well after 80+ hour protest
The shale gas company, IGas, announced this morning it had begun drilling its well at Tinker Lane near Blyth in north Nottinghamshire.
Anti-fracking campaigners join protest to close five London bridges
An estimated 6,000+ of people, including opponents of fracking from across the UK, closed five bridges in central London to highlight their concerns about climate change.
22 arrests after climate change blockade of energy department
22 people were arrested following a seven-hour protest about the climate change outside a government department in central London.
