The first UK anti-fracking protesters found in contempt of court for breaching an injunction should not have been brought before the courts, lawyers argued today.
The trial of an environmental campaigner was abandoned halfway through yesterday when the court heard that Humberside Police had a force-wide policy against a particular form of protest.
Three anti-fracking campaigners who breached a protest injunction could be vindicated by recent earth tremors in Lancashire, the High Court was told today.
Conservative-controlled Surrey County Council has declared a climate emergency – almost unanimously.
Anti-fracking campaigner Helen Chuntso reports on an investigation into the sale of Third Energy’s onshore gas business. She examines the importance of the deal for funding decommissioning – an issue now attracting cross-party political attention.
Two campaigners locked themselves together in a protest outside an industrial cleaning company early this morning.
A camp established to monitor operations at an oil and gas exploration site in East Yorkshire has been evicted for a second time.
