Backbench Tories call for relaxed planning laws for fracking
A group of backbench Conservatives has urged the government to ease the planning laws on shale gas schemes.
A group of backbench Conservatives has urged the government to ease the planning laws on shale gas schemes.
A formal complaint has been lodged about a BBC interview with the chief executive of the shale gas company, Cuadrilla.
UK electricity will be 95% low carbon by 2030, with a “major acceleration of homegrown power”, the government announced tonight.
IGas has estimated it could produce fracked gas for three million homes within 12-18 months if the fracking moratorium was lifted.
The business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, has ordered a scientific review of the impact of fracking.
Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness, the UN secretary general said today.
Keep up to date with April 2022’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas.
The MP representing the area around Cuadrilla’s shale gas site in Lancashire has opposed efforts by some fellow Conservatives to lift the moratorium on fracking and relax regulations on earthquakes.
A group of MPs has launched an inquiry into how the UK can phase out fossil fuel use more quickly.
An environmental campaigner who brought a legal challenge over the climate impact of onshore oil production has applied to take her case to the final court in the UK.