Planning approval at an onshore drilling site in Surrey did not need to take into account the climate effects of burning produced oil, a High Court judge ruled this morning.
Measures to protect the environment during proposed work at the Balcombe oil site in West Sussex are “inadequate, incomplete and misleading”, villagers have complained.
Important sections of the injunction against protests outside Cuadrilla’s fracking site near Blackpool have been abandoned.
The decision on Angus Energy’s planning application for an extended well test at Balcombe will not now be made this month.
The new Conservative MP for the Rother Valley in south Yorkshire is calling on the government to extend its moratorium on fracking to include drilling for shale gas.
Just one in ten people support fracking in the UK, according to the latest results in a quarterly government survey.
IGas should not be allowed to dispose of radioactive wastewater in a well at its Singleton oil site in the South Downs, campaigners have argued.
The petroleum licence which saw drilling for oil in Woodburn Forest in Northern Ireland has been relinquished.
An Australian mining group has almost doubled its stake in the UK shale gas company, Cuadrilla Resources.
Claire O’Neill, the chair of the COP26 talks sacked by Boris Johnson last week, said the prime minister did not understand the climate emergency.
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