A US fracking company has agreed to pay $16.29 million for a new public water system following criminal charges over contamination featured in the Gasland documentary.
The climate-damaging gas methane is still being released at English onshore oil sites, a year after researchers revealed the problem.
Councillors in Edinburgh voted this afternoon for an end to investments in fossil fuel companies by the £8+ billion Lothian Pension Fund.
Climate campaigners this morning sprayed fake oil on London offices with links to the fossil fuel industry.
The COP27 climate conference ended in Egypt today with a landmark agreement to compensate poorer countries that are the victims of climate change. But there was little progress in tacking emissions from burning fossil fuels, the root cause of global warming.
Officials have taken the first steps to force IGas to restore its shale gas site at Misson Springs in Nottinghamshire.
Shareholders in Reabold Resources have voted to maintain the company’s board.
The government’s autumn statement has been criticised for failing to close loopholes in the windfall tax and for delaying extra spending on home insulation for three years.
A government minister has dismissed calls to put the moratorium on fracking in England into law.
The Wressle production site in Lincolnshire has helped Europa Oil & Gas quadruple its annual revenues.